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The system of revenue sharing and fiscal transfers in China

Wang, Xiao; Herd, Richard - 2013

The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a multi-level government structure that shares national tax revenues through a system of tax sharing and transfers, and divides spending assignments and responsibilities. Local...

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Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic

Sila, Urban; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2020

There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of capacity at the local level reduces the quality...

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The System of Revenue Sharing and Fiscal Transfers in China

Wang, Xiao; Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

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Does fiscal decentralisation foster regional convergence?

Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Bartolini, David; Stossberg, Sibylle - 2016

Across the OECD, GDP per capita is converging. In contrast, regional disparities – or differences in GDP per capita across jurisdictions – are rising, mainly as a result of widening productivity differences. Fiscal decentralisation could help reduce them again. According to new OECD...

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Reforming Federal Fiscal Relations in Austria

Fuentes, Andrés - 2006

This paper reviews the fiscal relations between the three levels of government in Austria and points to the scope for reforming them with a view to improving the efficiency of the public sector. Key areas of public sector activity are subject to complex relations across the three layers of...

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Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government in the United States

Laubach, Thomas - 2005

This paper discusses the current state of fiscal relations between the federal, state and local governments in the United States and suggests directions for improvement. The significant degree of fiscal autonomy of the states and, to a lesser extent, of local governments has had several...

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Fiscal Autonomy of Sub-Central Governments

Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2006

State and local governments in OECD countries have access to a variety of fiscal resources. Discretion over these resources varies considerably, and so does sub-central governments’ power to shape public service delivery. The design of fiscal autonomy affects sub-central government’s...

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

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The drivers of interregional policy choices: Evidence from Italy

Padovano, Fabio - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 3, pp. 324-340

Theoretical developments in political economy analyses of intergovernmental transfers identify several factors previously ignored in the empirical literature and emphasize the importance of institutional details. Combined, these two developments create a degrees of freedom problem and make cross...

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Fiscal Prospects and Reforms in India

Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

has indeed been trying to rein in, though with difficulty in the face of rising world oil prices. Expenditure also needs …

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