Fiscal decentralization for the delivery of health and education in Indian states: An ongoing process is more desirable than a policy shift

IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Journal of Policy Modeling Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2024.01.006
Richa Singh , Sankalpa Bhattacharjee , Amarendu Nandy
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We examine the impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on two central components of public service delivery outcomes, viz., health and education using feasible generalized least squares on a balanced panel of 18 non-special category states of India for the period 2002–2020. Given India’s complex decentralization framework, intertwined with dynamic political and socioeconomic dimensions and weak institutional processes, our analysis is critical to examining the efficacy of decentralization as a policy instrument to augment the provision of public services. The novelty of our study stems not only from its longitudinal and multidimensional approach towards analyzing the effectiveness of decentralization reforms but also from its unique construction of an ‘institutional quality’ index that is critical for ensuring accountability in the decentralization process. Our findings underscore the positive impact of fiscal decentralization as a reformative intervention on public service delivery outcomes, highlighting the role of Indian polity and socioeconomic channels of accountability in shaping those outcomes. The study emphasizes the imperative to augment institutional quality, safeguard press freedom, enhance local government capacity, and delineate distinct functions within key policy domains for successful decentralization reforms.

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卫生和教育领域的财政权力下放:在印度各邦,持续的进程比政策转变更可取
我们采用可行的广义最小二乘法,对 2002-2020 年期间印度 18 个非特殊类别邦的平衡面板进行了研究,考察了财政权力下放改革对公共服务提供结果的两个核心组成部分,即卫生和教育的影响。鉴于印度复杂的权力下放框架与动态的政治和社会经济层面以及薄弱的制度流程交织在一起,我们的分析对于研究权力下放作为扩大公共服务供给的政策工具的有效性至关重要。我们研究的新颖之处不仅在于采用纵向和多维的方法来分析权力下放改革的有效性,还在于独特地构建了 "机构质量 "指数,该指数对于确保权力下放过程中的问责制至关重要。我们的研究结果强调了财政权力下放作为一种改革性干预措施对公共服务提供结果的积极影响,同时突出了印度政体和社会经济问责渠道在形成这些结果中的作用。本研究强调了提高机构质量、保障新闻自由、增强地方政府能力以及在关键政策领域内划分不同职能以促进权力下放改革取得成功的必要性。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Policy Modeling is published by Elsevier for the Society for Policy Modeling to provide a forum for analysis and debate concerning international policy issues. The journal addresses questions of critical import to the world community as a whole, and it focuses upon the economic, social, and political interdependencies between national and regional systems. This implies concern with international policies for the promotion of a better life for all human beings and, therefore, concentrates on improved methodological underpinnings for dealing with these problems.
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