Decentralised Provision of Quasi Private Goods: The Case of Colombia

Serie

• Borradores de economía

Resumen

• This paper quantifies the welfare effects of decentralization in Colombia, using a multiregional CGE model. We investigate to what extent will the Colombian Population be better off when goods such as health and education, are delivered locally as against centrally. A provision scheme based on the median voter is coincided. According to the results, the provision of health and education by regional governments improves the welfare of the Colombian Population as a whole, since regional governments provide goods and services in a way that better caters to local preferences. More importantly, these welfare gains vary from 1.3% to 2.3% of GDP, a substantial magnitude especially when compared with the efficiency gains associated to the tax reforms of the early nineties.

autores

• Iregui, Ana María

fecha de publicación

• 2002-03

Área temática

• D58 - Modelos computables y otros modelos aplicados de equilibrio general
• H42 - Bienes privados suministrados por el sector público

Enfoque geográfico

• Colombia  Country
• South America  Continent

Líneas de investigación

• Applied CGE Modelling
• Decentralization
• Quasi-private Goods

Identificador de objeto digital (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.32468/be.203

Issue

• 203