Central transfers and incentives to collect local revenue among the Central Region of Ghana’s local government officials: analysing the flypaper effect

Abstract Local governments that rely heavily on central transfers are likely to face a laxity problem when increasing locally generated revenues. The flypaper effect identifies this overdependence by examining the relationship between local expenditures and revenues (central transfers and locally ge...

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Published in:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Main Authors: Christopher Dick-Sagoe, Ernest Ngeh Tingum, Peter Asare-Nuamah, Denis N. Yuni, Nicholas Baidoo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2025-07-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05463-x