A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL AUTONOMY IN ALBANIA

Mariola KAPİDANİ

doi:https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2018.790

Makale detayları

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL AUTONOMY IN ALBANIA

Yazarlar:

Mariola KAPİDANİ

Yayıncı:

PressAcademia

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Journal of Business Economics and Finance 2018 Vol.7 Issue 1, pp.1-9

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000737654

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

eISSN:

2146-7943

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2018.790

Özet:

 


Purpose- The financial aspect of local government autonomy is
considered a very important topic in the public finance literature especially
for the developing countries. Fiscal autonomy empowers the local government
units with the right means to provide better services for the community and to
proper allocate the funds based on the citizens needs. The purpose of this
paper is to study the level of financial autonomy in Albanian municipalities
and compare the characteristics within different units of local government.  


Methodology- In this paper we analyze the financial autonomy of
Albanian municipalities by proposing an index to compare the governmental units
and classify them in four classes according to the degree of autonomy. Seven
quantitative indicators are used in the index, with different importance
coefficients.

Findings- In Albania, while important progress has been made on
advancing the decentralization reform in the last decade, autonomy of local
government still remains a challenge. Local authorities do not have appropriate
financial resources and they are depended on transfers from the central
government budget.



Conclusion- The index results show that only a small share of
local expenditures is covered by local tax revenues, while intergovernmental
transfers constitute an important source of funds for the execution of local
functions and service delivery. 




  


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Makale detayları

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL AUTONOMY IN ALBANIA

Yazarlar: Mariola KAPİDANİ

Yayıncı: PressAcademia

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Journal of Business Economics and Finance 2018 Vol.7 Issue 1, pp.1-9

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2018

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000737654

Sıklık: Üç Aylık

eISSN: 2146-7943

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2018.790

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Mariola KAPİDANİ

Yayıncı:

PressAcademia

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Journal of Business Economics and Finance 2018 Vol.7 Issue 1, pp.1-9

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000737654

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

eISSN:

2146-7943

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2018.790