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Fiscal Measures to Boost the Economic Development of Russian Territories [PDF]

Финансовый журнал, 2020
Two possible directions of fiscal measures aimed at improving Russian territories’ economic development are discussed in the paper: one at the level of largest agglomerations and another one at the regional level.
Alexander D. Andryakov, Evgeniy A. Dombrovskiy   +1 more
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Accountability and fiscal equalization

Journal of Public Economics, 2008
Abstract A common feature of multi-jurisdictional systems is equalization programs. The implementation of such programs, that is based on some measurement of sub-national fiscal capacity and effort, is particularly complex. Within a political economy model, this paper analyzes the impact of such systems on accountability, identifying a positive and
Schwager, Robert, Kotsogiannis, Christos
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Federalism, Grants, and Fiscal Equalization [PDF]

National Tax Journal, 1999
Buchanan's model of fiscal equalization, widely dis- cussed in Canadian literature and aimed at horizontal equity across the member jurisdictions of a federation, is reexamined. The first section traces its development. The second section raises some critical issues and examines the rationale of capacity equalization as an alternative approach.
Mieszkowski, Peter, Musgrave, Richard A.
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Improving the Assessment of Regional Tax Capacity by Selected Types of Taxes [PDF]

Финансовый журнал
Sub-federal authorities have the power to administer transportation tax, gambling tax, local taxes and taxes on total income, including setting rates, providing benefits or determining the tax base, which makes these taxes an important instrument of sub ...
Igor Yu. Arlashkin
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Federal Intergovernmental Transfers and the Level of Intraregional Fiscal Decentralization in Russia [PDF]

Финансовый журнал, 2019
The article discusses the federal tools to expand the relative (to the regional level) financial capacity of local budgets in Russia’s budgetary system.
Evgeny N. Timushev
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Comparative Assessment of Regional Fiscal Capacity Calculation Approaches [PDF]

Финансовый журнал, 2020
Three basic methods are employed to assess the fiscal capacity of territories for fiscal equalization: the representative tax system method, the historical data method, and the macroeconomic indicator method.
Igor Yu. Arlashkin
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Equalization through the People’s Republic of China’s Intergovernmental Fiscal System: The Effectiveness of Central and Provincial Transfers

Asian Development Review
The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) fiscal system is characterized by very high expenditure decentralization and heavy reliance on transfers to finance public services.
XIAO TAN, YING TAN
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Evaluating the current equalization grant to counties in Croatia [PDF]

Financial Theory and Practice, 2010
This paper assesses the design of the 2005 equalization grant to the counties in Croatia. Since no allocation formula for this grant has ever been publicly disclosed, this paper provides an analysis and explanation of the aforesaid formula.
Mihaela Bronić
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Amalgamation and Local Finance: A Case Study of Ukraine

Central European Public Administration Review, 2022
Purpose: The article aims to measure the impact of the voluntary amalgamation approach applied in Ukraine in the course of the decentralization reforms undertaken over a period of five years, and assess how much these reforms have been successful in ...
Glendal Wright, Sergii Slukhai, Bohdan Yakymchuk   +2 more
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Net Fiscal Flows and the Size of Cities

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2016
Which regions contribute most to national growth? Do large cities ‘need’ more expenditure per capita? The relation between these two questions is the subject of a current German discussion, but it is of importance for other countries as well.
Horst Zimmermann
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