Tan, Xiao; Tan, Ying - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 41 (2024) 1, pp. 227-261
heavy reliance on transfers to finance public services. The government's embrace of inclusiveness and equalization as … national goals has raised questions about whether transfers can deliver equalization. This paper seeks to answer this question … exert greater equalization efforts, but these are not necessarily proportional to their pretransfer inequality. As a result …