Research Catalog

Title

Financing decentralized expenditures : an international comparison of grants / edited by Ehtisham Ahmad.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Brookfield, Vt. : Edward Elgar, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Ahmad, Ehtisham.

Description

xiv, 396 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in fiscal federalism and state-local finance

Uniform Title

Studies in fiscal federalism and state-local finance.

Subjects

• Grants-in-aid > Congresses
• Transfer payments > Congresses
• Intergovernmental fiscal relations > Congresses

Note

• Based on papers presented at a symposium held in Qingdao in July, 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Wallace E. Oates -- 1. Intergovernmental Transfers - An International Perspective / Ehtisham Ahmad -- 2. Assessing Provincial Revenue-raising Capacity for Transfers / Douglas H. Clark -- 3. Expenditure Needs: Institutions and Data / C. Richard Rye and Bob Searle -- 4. The Fiscal Transfer System in Canada / Douglas H. Clark -- 5. Intergovernmental Transfers in Switzerland and Germany / Paul Bernd Spahn -- 6. The Fiscal Transfer System in Australia / C. Richard Rye and Bob Searle -- 7. Denmark and Other Scandinavian Countries: Equalization and Grants / Joergen R. Lotz -- 8. Financing Regional and ii)cal Governments - Italy and Spain / Giorgio Brosio -- 9. Intergovernmental Transfers in India / M. Govinda Rao -- 10. Local Autonomy and Fiscal Resources in Korea / Soo Keun Kim -- 11. Fiscal Transfers in Indonesia / Zia Qureshi -- 12. The New Revenue-Sharing Arrangement in China: An Illustrative Example / Dubravko Mihaljek --
• 13. Constraints in Reforming the Transfer System in China / Lou Jiwei -- 14. Types of Transfers - A General Formulation / Ehtisham Ahmad and Ravi Thomas.

ISBN

1858984483

LCCN

96020348

OCLC

ocm34669410

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries