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Title

Fiscal equalization : challenges in the design of intergovernmental transfers / edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Bob Searle.

Publication

New York : Springer, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge.
• Searle, R. J. (Bob)

Description

x, 501 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Intergovernmental fiscal relations > Congresses
• Fiscal policy > Congresses
• Equality > Congresses
• Revenue sharing > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at a conference held in Atlanta in Oct. 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Challenges in the design of fiscal eqaulization and intergovernmental transfers / Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Bob Searle -- 2. Fiscal capacity equalization and economic efficiency : the case of Australia / Jeffrey D. Petchey and Sophia Levtchenkova -- 3. Ensuring inter-regional equity and poverty reduction / Bert Hofman and Susana Cordeiro Guerra -- 4. The impact of equalization on service delivery / Catherine Hull and Bob Searle -- 5. Harmonizing objectives and outcomes at the national and sub-national levels through citizen engagement and capacity building (with special references to the Philippines) / Alex B. Brillantes, Jr. and Jose O. Tiu Sonco II -- 6. A framework for evaluating alternate institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization transfers / Anwar Shah -- 7. Intergovernmental transfers : the funding rule and mechanisms / Paul Bernd Spahn -- 8. Intergovernmental transfers : the vertical sharing dimension / Roy Bahl and Sally Wallace -- 9. Expenditure-based equalization transfers / Richard Bird and Francois Vaillancourt -- 10. Designing intergovernmental equalization transfers with imperfect data : concepts, practices, and lessons / Jameson Boex and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez -- 11. A model for public infrastructure eqaulization in transitional economies / Sophia Levtchenkova and Jeffrey D. Petchey -- 12. Revenue sharing, natural resources and fiscal eqaulization / Bob Searle -- 13. The nature and functions of tied grants / Bob Searle and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez -- 14. Intergovernmental loans : their fit into a transfer system / Dana Weist -- 15. The political economy of equalization transfers / Stuti Khemani.

ISBN

• 9780387489872 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0387489878 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006935554

OCLC

• 82172535
• ocm82172535
• SCSB-5924556

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries