Effect of Fiscal Independence and Local Revenue Against Human Development Index
Local revenue is intended to finance infrastructure and basic public services that have not reached a certain standard to accelerate regional development. Capital expenditure is to increase public facilities. No part of the Capital Expenditure used for operational costs such as the construction of travel expenses and so on. Human Development Index is a measure of comparison of life expectancy, education and standard of living for all countries around the world. Human Development Index is used to classify whether a country is a developed country, developing or underdeveloped countries and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. If a public facility can be met, then people feel comfortable and be able to run their business efficiently and effectively so that in the end will create a healthy life and a longer life expectancy as well as partially and simultaneously improve the quality of education and standard of life of the community. Data were collected from 33 District Municipality (25 districts and eight cities) in the district/cities of North Sumatera. The sample used in this study were 22 district/cities (15 District and 7 Cities), from 2005 to 2009. Moreover, the fiscal independence level affects indirectly to the Human Development Index.