The composition of local government expenditure and income growth: the case of Sweden

Andersson, Linda; Värja, Emelie

doi:10.1080/00343404.2022.2131755

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“…Regional financial performance can be assessed through healthy debt levels, the ability to manage debt properly, and debt sustainability in the long term (Andersson Järnberg & Värja, 2022). 4.…”

Section: Regional Financial Performancementioning

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The Role of Capital Expenditure Allocation in Mediating Regional Financial Performance on Regional Economic Growth Aceh Province

Haq,

Wati,

Istianda

2023

JSETP

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This study aims to examine the role of capital expenditure in mediating the relationship between regional financial performance and economic growth in Aceh Province. The data source for this research uses secondary data sources from the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bureau of Statistics. Respondents in this study were local governments in Aceh with a total of 24 provincial, district, and city governments for 12 years from 2011-2022 period. The results of the analysis show that regional financial performance, as represented by the independence ratio, effectiveness ratio, efficiency ratio, harmony ratio, and personnel expenditure ratio, simultaneously has a positive and significant effect on capital expenditure. Meanwhile, the direct effect of capital expenditure allocation and regional financial performance is represented by the independence ratio, effectiveness ratio, efficiency ratio, harmony ratio, and personnel expenditure ratio, which simultaneously have a positive and significant effect on economic growth. This study found that the mediation of capital expenditure allocation on regional financial performance in Aceh province does not affect economic growth. Capital expenditure which is expected to be able to bridge regional financial performance indicators on economic growth, has not yet affected Aceh province.

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Section: Regional Financial Performancementioning

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The Role of Capital Expenditure Allocation in Mediating Regional Financial Performance on Regional Economic Growth Aceh Province

Haq,

Wati,

Istianda

2023

JSETP

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“…With regard to investments in physical capital, municipalities have far‐reaching responsibilities for important infrastructure such as water and sewerage, local road networks, waste and sanitation and energy production. As a result, the local government sector's gross fixed capital investment spending is now larger than that of the central government sector (Andersson Järnberg & Hultkrantz, 2022). Not least due to local governments' responsibility for development planning, waste management and local roads, they have also been identified as a key actor in Sweden for mitigating climate change (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, 2022).…”

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Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?

CRONERT,

NYMAN

2023

European J Political Res

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In research on public economics, climate politics and the welfare state, voters' informational and cognitive biases are commonly understood as impeding future‐oriented policy‐making, by incentivizing policymakers to trade off long‐term investments against short‐term consumption when facing competitive elections or liquidity constraints. Yet, the assumptions about how policymakers perceive these alleged trade‐offs have not yet been verified. This study reports results from a survey of Swedish local government politicians, centring around experiments about environmental‐friendly public investments. We find that most politicians perceive that electoral competition stimulates rather than impedes investments. Politicians are, however, less supportive of investments if these need to be financed through absolute losses rather than gains foregone, which illustrates the relevance of endowment effects in long‐term governance. We furthermore show that our micro‐level observations are consistent with macro‐level investment expenditure patterns. These findings demonstrate that accounting for policymakers' own perceptions is important for advancing our understanding of future‐oriented policy‐making.

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Fiscal Policy And Poverty In The Southern African Customs Union: The Case Of Frontier Technology Readiness Index and Skills

Aromolaran,

Ngepah

2024

IJSSER

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The study examines the relationship between fiscal policy, the level of poverty, and the frontier technology readiness index (skill) in the Southern African Customs Union over the period of 2012 to 2022. The technique of pooled ordinary least squares was used to ascertain the empirical findings, while the LLC and IPS established the stationarity of the variables. The empirical findings show that government expenditure on education, indirect taxes, and the skills index directly affect household consumption expenditure significantly and, by implication, reduce poverty. However, the interaction of government expenditure on education and skills significantly reduces household final consumption expenditure. The essence of the study is that the respective government in the Southern African Customs Union should harness efforts towards integrating relevant skills into the educational system in light of the 21st-century technology revolution. It is admitted that previous studies have largely concentrated on issues such as income inequality, financial inclusion, government expenditure program in addressing the problem of poverty in developing economies, this study, while observing the crucial role of fiscal policy, evaluates the effect of a frontier technology readiness index, skills, in abating the severity of poverty in the region.

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The composition of local government expenditure and income growth: the case of Sweden

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

The Role of Capital Expenditure Allocation in Mediating Regional Financial Performance on Regional Economic Growth Aceh Province

The Role of Capital Expenditure Allocation in Mediating Regional Financial Performance on Regional Economic Growth Aceh Province

Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?

Fiscal Policy And Poverty In The Southern African Customs Union: The Case Of Frontier Technology Readiness Index and Skills

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