The author focuses on the relationship between the glow of funds and income differences with respect to the horizontal adjustment function of budgetary transfers from India's central government to its states. He shows the necessity of long-term strucural changes in the specific area of...

The paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the Philippine state through a discussion of its fiscal base for the period 1950 to 1985. After presenting a definition of the fiscal base of the state and discussing why an analysis of the state as a power centre can be important in...