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Fiscal Capacity and State Fragility

2021
This chapter discusses issues that arise in building an effective fiscal state and relates this to debates about causes and consequences of state fragility. It argues that the lack of capacity to raise revenue is symptomatic of a wider range of issues that lie at the heart of state fragility, including a weak private sector, a lack of legitimacy and ...
Timothy Besley, Hannes Mueller
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War, Credit, and Fiscal Capacity

2022
This chapter tackles the short- and long-term repercussions of external capital access on fiscal capacity, which is the ability to raise taxes. It also cites that war finance is consequential for state building. Moreover, access to external finance during wartime in the Bond Era decreased the likelihood of strengthening fiscal capacity.
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Capacity

International Journal of Public Administration, 2016
ABSTRACTAn intergovernmental fiscal transfer is an instrument used by governments to equalize fiscal capacity. However, with the large discrepancies in fiscal capacity among Local Authorities (LAs) in Kenya, it is evident that the intention of the instrument has not been met.
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Marrying Fiscal Rules & Investment: A Central Fiscal Capacity for Europe

SSRN Electronic Journal
The European fiscal governance framework remains incomplete, hindering policy coordination during economic shocks and affecting the transmission of the single monetary policy. High public debt and low public investment worsen resilience across Member States.
Schang, Christopher, Vinci, Francesca
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Fiscal Capacity, Fiscal Need, and Fiscal Comfort among U.S. States: New Evidence

CrossRef Listing of Deleted DOIs, 1997
During its lifetime, the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations periodically published estimates of each state's relative fiscal capacity. This research note provides new estimates updated to fiscal year 1994, the latest year for which all requisite underlying data are available.
Robert Tannenwald, Jonathan Cowan
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Assessing the Fiscal Capacity of Indian Governments [PDF]

, 2009
In this paper we assess the record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances. A variety of indices are constructed, and consistency checks devised to measure relative performance. No government has achieved its targets, but the congress has the best record in keeping its promises, and the NDA
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Commodity dependence and fiscal capacity [PDF]

, 2011
This paper shows that higher commodity dependence reduces the government's incentive to invest in fiscal capacity. After developing a model that makes this prediction, evidence is provided supporting the view that countries more dependent on commodities (whose rents can be easily appropriated by the government, such as oil) have weaker fiscal capacity.
Mauricio Cárdenas, Santiago Ramírez, Didem Tuzemen   +2 more
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Local fiscal equalisation based on fiscal capacity: the case of Austria

Fiscal Studies, 2002
AbstractThis paper deals with local fiscal equalisation in Austria. The system of intergovernmental relations in Austria includes different regulations in order to equalise differences in the fiscal capacity of the municipalities. This leads to so‐called ‘compensation effects’, because additional revenues from a local government's own tax are (at least
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The Origins of the State's Fiscal Capacity.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Carmine Guerriero, Laura Righi
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The Fiscal Capacity of the Italian Regions

Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, 2010
This paper demonstrates the presence of significant territorial gaps in Italian subnational governments ability to generate revenue through local taxation. An exercise concerning three main local taxes shows that such fiscal gaps reflect primarily regional economies development, while differences in tax rates and tax evasion across the Country play a ...
De Matteis P., Messina G.
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