Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Principles and PracticesRobin W. Boadway, Anwar Shah The design of intergovernmental fiscal transfers has a strong bearing on efficiency and equity of public service provision and accountable local governance. This book provides a comprehensive one-stop window/source of materials to guide practitioners and scholars on design and worldwide practices in intergovernmental fiscal transfers and their implications for efficiency, and equity in public services provision as well as accountable governance. |
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Fiscal Transfers | 1 |
Perspective | 55 |
Equity and Efficiency Aspects of Interagency | 75 |
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Alberta allocation approach Australia autonomy bailouts Boadway borrowing budget constraint problem Canada capital grants central government Commonwealth Grants Commission conditional grants constitutional costs decisions determined developing countries economic efficiency ensure equalization grants equalization payments equalization transfers equity ernments estimates example expenditure needs factors federal government fiscal benefits fiscal capacity Fiscal Decentralization fiscal equalization Fiscal Federalism fiscal gap flypaper effect formula functions funds Germany Grants Commission horizontal incentives income institutional intergovernmental transfers jurisdictions Länder large cities levels of government macro matching grants measure ment moral hazard percent political population pork barrel programs provinces public services recipient redistribution regional governments regional insurance relative rent seeking responsibilities result rural municipalities Shah soft budget constraint South Africa spending spillovers standard subnational governments tax base tax competition tax rates tax revenues tion transfer system transition economies unconditional United vertical fiscal imbalance World Bank World Bank Institute