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Obstacles and opportunities for nourishing South Asia's adolescent girls.

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Sethi V, Murira Z, Gardner H, Rawal S, South Asia Better Diets and Better Growth for Adolescent Girls Study Group.   +4 more
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Intergovernmental transfers and tax noncompliance

International Tax and Public Finance, 2019
This study investigates the effect of intergovernmental transfers on firms’ tax noncompliance. Using data from China where intergovernmental transfers vary substantially, we find that a large amount of intergovernmental transfers leads to a high degree of firms’ tax noncompliance.
Bing Ye, Xunyong Xiang
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Intergovernmental Transfers and Poverty Alleviation [PDF]

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 1995
In this paper the design of intergovernmental transfer schemes in a federation is analysed, focusing on schemes that can have a significant impact on improving interpersonal distribution in the sense of alleviating poverty. It is argued that states with a lower income have larger concentrations of poor persons and that their ability to combat poverty ...
M G Rao, A Das-Gupta
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Neutrality of Intergovernmental Transfers

2019
In this chapter, we extend the model of a two-level government constructed by Boadway and Keen (Int Tax Finance 3:137–155, 1996) to include a third level and derive the optimal tax and intergovernmental transfer system. We analyze whether the second-best allocation can be replicated when three types of intergovernmental transfer schemes are available ...
Tsuyoshi Shinozaki, Kota Sugahara, Minoru Kunizaki   +2 more
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Intergovernmental Transfers in India

1997
The 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, 2001
A 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, Iwan J. Azis, Larry Schroeder   +2 more
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Local Fiscal Response to Intergovernmental Transfers

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1980
A 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, 1977
The 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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Assessment of intergovernmental revenue transfers

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1993
Abstract This paper employs data envelopment analysis (DEA) to study intergovernmental transfers of revenue from central to local government, termed local aid in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The pattern of transfers is evaluated relative to DBA efficiency measures.
Agha Iqbal Ali, Catherine S. Lerme, Robert A. Nakosteen   +2 more
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Are intergovernmental transfers in China equalizing?

China Economic Review, 2012
Abstract 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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