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Intergovernmental Transfers in India
1997The Constitution enables the appointment of the Finance Commission every 5 years by the President of India to recommend devolution of Union taxes and grants in aid to the States to offset vertical and horizontal imbalances. The Commission has the mandate to recommend measures to supplement the resources of local bodies as well.
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL TRANSFERS AND DECENTRALISATION IN INDONESIA
Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 2001A fundamental restructuring of intergovernmental relations involving decentralisation and expanded autonomy for provincial and local governments is under way in Indonesia. This paper explores the intergovernmental financial system that preceded the new General Allocation Fund (DAU), with particular attention to the old Inpres development grants.
Christopher Silver +2 more
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Principles
2019This chapter presents conceptual guidance on the design of fiscal transfers. It reviews the principles of intergovernmental finance, with a view to drawing some general lessons of relevance to policymakers and practitioners. It provides a taxonomy of grants, their possible impacts on local fiscal behavior, and the accountability of grant recipients to ...
Harry Kitchen +2 more
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Local Fiscal Response to Intergovernmental Transfers
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1980A N extensive literature has developed on the impact of intergovernmental transfers on the budgetary decisions of state and local governments. In the more recent studies, models of fiscal response based on consumer utility maximization models are derived and tested, usually on a cross-section data base.1 The model in this paper, along the lines of ...
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Tax Arrangements and Intergovernmental Transfers
Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 1977The significance of intergovernmental tax arrangements in a federation can only be appreciated in relation to intergovernmental functional responsibilities and the cooresponding financial outlays. The financial outcome of the allocation of taxes and functions among governments in the Australian federation in 1973-74 is summarized in Table 1 ...
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and the Environment
2009Provision of environmental services involves spatial externalities. The costs of provision are borne at the level of provision, but the benefits are realized on a larger scale. Mismatch between the decision-making responsibilities and costs and benefits has been considered a cause for the underprovision of the services.
Surender Kumar, Shunsuke Managi
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1997
Over the past few decades, a clear trend has emerged worldwide toward the devolution of spending and, to a lesser extent, revenue-raising responsibilities to state and local levels of government. One view is that the decentralization of spending responsibilities can entail substantial gains in terms of distributed equity and macroeconomic management ...
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Over the past few decades, a clear trend has emerged worldwide toward the devolution of spending and, to a lesser extent, revenue-raising responsibilities to state and local levels of government. One view is that the decentralization of spending responsibilities can entail substantial gains in terms of distributed equity and macroeconomic management ...
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Are intergovernmental transfers in China equalizing?
China Economic Review, 2012Abstract Since 1994, China's central government has implemented a sequence of fiscal recentralization measures to increase its equalization capacity and reduce regional income disparities. However, the effect of intergovernmental transfers on equalization has been called into question by anecdotal evidence that seems to suggest that transfers from ...
Bihong Huang, Kang Chen
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Who benefits? Intergovernmental transfers, subnational politics and local spending in Ecuador
Negotiating Universalism in India and Latin America, 2019This paper looks at the intervening role that local political elites play to translate government transfers into effective public spending. We want to know whether mayors spend IGTs to provide basic public services or infrastructure works, and whether ...
Andrés Mejía Acosta, Karla Meneses
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The value of a party: Local politics and the allocation of intergovernmental transfers
European Journal of Political Economy, 2023Matthias Quinckhardt
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