“Autonomy has a positive impact on the well-being of populations.” This is one of the conclusions drawn by Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, autonomist president of the Assembly of Corsica, after reading a study commissioned by her, which brings together 53 research papers from international universities on the subject.
“The autonomy that we will talk about is not a fetish, nor a magical thought, nor a vague concept”, hammered out Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis when presenting this Thursday in the insular hemicycle a study that compiles “53 selected research works within the literature international academic”, with “about 80 countries affected by the studies listed”.
stronger decentralization
For the autonomist president of the Assembly of Corsica, the autonomy sought by her political majority corresponds to “a strong degree of legislative and fiscal decentralization.”
“On the one hand, there are no nationalists on the surface who wish to obtain autonomy as a totem and, on the other, those who care about the real problems of Corsican life,” he said, defending “an autonomy as close as possible to the challenges of our island that allows us all to improve the quality of life, health, freedom of enterprise, income, purchasing power, social fulfillment or even the defense of the environment and our culture”.
In the 64-page report he presented and which is posted on the website of the Corsican Assembly, there are ten “lessons learned” from this academic work, including the fact that “there is a positive link between decentralization and growth economic”. , that “fiscal autonomy has a direct positive effect on health and education”, that “decentralization makes it possible to improve environmental performance” or even that “there are direct positive effects of ‘fiscal autonomy in reducing income inequalities ‘.
This praise of autonomy came a week after the launch on July 21 of a “one-year cycle of consultations” between the Ministry of the Interior and Corsican elected officials, which could lead to an institutional evolution of the island of Beauty. .
21 Corsican elected officials went to Paris to open this cycle of debate on the future of the island, described as “historic”.
One of the criteria studied by the Kyrn’Economics firm that compiled this work is the human development index (HDI), which includes life expectancy, gross national income per capita and years of schooling.
“For a 1% increase in the degree of autonomy, we find on average a 17.8% increase in the HDI,” notes a 2021 study on the link between fiscal decentralization, spending decentralization, and the HDI for a panel of 49 countries, mainly in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Source: BFM TV
