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Author :Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :0387489886 Total Pages :495 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (874 download)
Book Synopsis Fiscal Equalization by : Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Download or read book Fiscal Equalization written by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, experts from across the globe highlight the state of knowledge in intergovernmental transfer design. The essays collected in the volume represent creative new thinking about challenging policy issues and offer useful options for policy makers. The book offers academics and practitioners a thorough, thematic assessment of unresolved issues in the design of equalization grants.
Book Synopsis Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada by : Daniel Béland
Download or read book Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada written by Daniel Béland and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada is a concise book that aims to increase public understanding of equalization and fiscal federalism by providing a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective on the history, politics, and economics of equalization policy in Canada. The authors provide a brief history of the equalization program, a discussion of key economic debates concerning the role of that program and its effects, an analysis of the politics of equalization as witnessed over the last decade, and an exploration of the relationship between equalization and other components of fiscal federalism, particularly the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer. The result is an analysis of equalization that draws from the best scholarship available in the fields of economics, economic history, political science, public policy, and political sociology."--
Book Synopsis Swiss Public Administration by : Andreas Ladner
Download or read book Swiss Public Administration written by Andreas Ladner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public administration, there are other factors which make a country successful. The authors argue that Switzerland is an interesting case, from a theoretical, scientific and a more practice-oriented perspective. While confronted with the same challenges as other countries, Switzerland offers different solutions, some of which work astonishingly well.
Book Synopsis Fiscal Equalization for State and Local Government Finance by : John E. Anderson
Download or read book Fiscal Equalization for State and Local Government Finance written by John E. Anderson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1994-10-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the public policy challenges of fiscal disparities, their sources, and how states are addressing them. States have spent considerable effort and money to reduce fiscal disparities among local governments, particularly in the area of education finance. Several options to reduce inequalities, including local option taxes, tax base sharing, and shared tax systems have met with varying degrees of success. Here public finance experts discuss the implementation of creative public policies for dealing with fiscal disparities. Particular attention is paid to school equalization, including the division of fiscal responsibilities between state and local governments, potential funding sources, and what is necessary to achieve school equity.
Book Synopsis A Practitioner's Guide to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers by : Anwar Shah
Download or read book A Practitioner's Guide to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers written by Anwar Shah and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intergovernmental fiscal transfers are a dominant feature of subnational finance in most countries. They are used to ensure that revenues roughly match the expenditure needs of various orders (levels) of subnational governments. They are also used to advance national, regional, and local area objectives, such as fairness and equity, and creating a common economic union. The structure of these transfers creates incentives for national, regional, and local governments that have a bearing on fiscal management, macroeconomic stability, distributional equity, allocative efficiency, and public services delivery. This paper reviews the conceptual, empirical, and practice literature to distill lessons of policy interest in designing the fiscal transfers to create the right incentives for prudent fiscal management and competitive and innovative service delivery. It provides practical guidance on the design of performance-oriented transfers that emphasize bottom-up, client-focused, and results-based government accountability. It cites examples of simple but innovative grant designs that can satisfy grantors' objectives while preserving local autonomy and creating an enabling environment for responsive, responsible, equitable, and accountable public governance. The paper further provides guidance on the design and practice of equalization transfers for regional fiscal equity as well as the institutional arrangements for implementation of such transfer mechanisms. It concludes with negative (practices to avoid) and positive (practices to emulate) lessons from international practices.
Book Synopsis Equalization in a Federal State by : Robin W. Boadway
Download or read book Equalization in a Federal State written by Robin W. Boadway and published by Economic Council of Canada. This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A framework for evaluating alternate institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization transfers by :
Download or read book A framework for evaluating alternate institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization transfers written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evaluating Fiscal Equalization in Indonesia by :
Download or read book Evaluating Fiscal Equalization in Indonesia written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper presents a methodology to evaluate fiscal decentralization focusing on the potential mis-targeting of intergovernmental fiscal equalization transfers. The approach builds on an explicit comparison and the summary measurement of different (horizontal) allocation distributions across states or localities. Whereas formula-based fiscal transfers have the merit of being transparent and promoting revenue predictability in fiscal decentralization, in practice, two challenges emerge: (1) What are the appropriate formula designs given the sub-national data constraints evident in most decentralizing developing countries? and (2) How costly in terms of mis-targeting to the presumed expenditure needs and fiscal capacity are deviations from these types of benchmark formulas (for example, due to historical factors or the need to meet establishment costs such as civil service wages)? The authors illustrate this approach by assessing Indonesia's evolving intergovernmental fiscal system instituted in the 2001 Big Bang decentralization. The discussion comes against Indonesia's recent policy decision to fully fund sub-national civil servant wages as part of the base general allocation grant (DAU) transfers, raising questions about both incentive effects for local governments and potential mis-targeting. The authors identify potential efficiency losses from the DAU's horizontal misallocation from half a dozen alternative scenarios found in the policy dialogue, ranging from 9 to 30 percent-on the order of US$ 3.9 billion-of the overall annual size of this large intergovernmental transfer. The scale of these tradeoffs highlights the importance of intergovernmental transfers in more general debates in public finance for decentralized countries. "--World Bank web site.
Download or read book Beyond equalization written by and published by The Fraser Institute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book have worked independently and opinions expressed by them are, therefore, their own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the supporters or the trustees of The Fraser Institute. [...] She is co-author of the An Empir- ical Comparison of Labour Relations Laws in Canada and the United States (2006), Union Disclosure in Canada and the United States (2006), Fiscal Per- formance Index (2006), Tax Freedom Day (2006), Canadian Provincial In- vestment Climate Report (2006), Transparency of Labour Relations Boards in Canada and the United States (2005), and the State of the Urban Air in [...] We would like to acknowledge all of the scholars who provided peer review of this study: Professor Ron Knee- bone of the University of Calgary, Professor Richard Bird of the University of Toronto, Professor Barry Cooper of the University of Calgary, Gordon Gibson who is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, Professor Bev Dahlby of the University of Alberta and a member of the Fraser Institute's [...] In addition, we would like to thank Nadeem Esmail, the Director of Health Performance Studies at the Fraser Institute and Fred McMahon the Director of Globalization and Trade at the Fraser Institute and the author of 2 books on the topic of fiscal balance and equalization for their review of a number of working drafts. [...] Figure 1.2 illustrates the nominal net fiscal balance (surplus or deficit) for the federal government and all of the provincial and territorial governments (consolidated) between 1990/91 and 2005/06. The federal government begins the period with an enormous deficit of $32.4 billion while the provinces had a much lower, collective deficit of $7.6 billion.
Author :United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1580 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis Revenue Sharing and Its Alternatives: what Future for Fiscal Federalism? by : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy
Download or read book Revenue Sharing and Its Alternatives: what Future for Fiscal Federalism? written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Fiscal Federalism in Brazil by : Anwar Shah
Download or read book The New Fiscal Federalism in Brazil written by Anwar Shah and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides an overview of the existing state of fiscal federalism in Brazil and suggests directions for change.
Book Synopsis Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada by : Daniel Béland
Download or read book Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada written by Daniel Béland and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada aims to increase public understanding of equalization and fiscal federalism by providing a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective on the history, politics, and economics of equalization policy in Canada. The authors provide a brief history, an analysis of the politics of equalization as witnessed over the last fifteen years, and a discussion of key economic debates concerning the role of the program and its effects. They also explore the relationship between equalization and other components of fiscal federalism, particularly the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer. The result is an analysis that draws from the best scholarship available in the fields of economics, economic history, political science, political sociology, and public policy.
Book Synopsis Dilemmas and Compromises by : Sergii Slukhai
Download or read book Dilemmas and Compromises written by Sergii Slukhai and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fiscal Federalism in Unitary States by : Per Molander
Download or read book Fiscal Federalism in Unitary States written by Per Molander and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decentralism of political power to regions and local government occurs worldwide in response to demands from the periphery. Such devolution of power raises a number of problems - political, financial, and legal. By gathering together important papers from a series of workshops sponsored by the SNS Constitutional Project and the Center for European Integration Studies, this volume presents a number of these problems from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. The authors believe that fiscal federalism, while originating in formally federal states, is relevant also to the analysis of state-local relationships in unitary states with some degree of regional or local authority. Among the topics they cover are the division of responsibilities and powers of taxation, bailouts, systems of equalization, and state grants, as well as problems related to democracy and citizens' rights. While the book's primary focus is Nordic, its international perspective is enhanced by contributions from Europe, Canada, and the U.S.
Book Synopsis Intergovernmental Transfers in Federations by : Serdar Yilmaz
Download or read book Intergovernmental Transfers in Federations written by Serdar Yilmaz and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intergovernmental Transfers in Federations presents a synthesis of international experience of large federations in the most recent times in addressing the most fundamental issue of horizontal and vertical imbalances in their countries through the prism of intergovernmental transfers. Contributors delve into the various aspects of policy making as well as policy choices in selecting an efficiency path for a meaningful fiscal devolution aimed at integrating performance and incentives to reach an expenditure mix that facilitates better service delivery.
Book Synopsis Interstate Fiscal Disparities in America by : Yahua Qiao
Download or read book Interstate Fiscal Disparities in America written by Yahua Qiao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis A Framework for Evaluating Alternate Institutional Arrangements for Fiscal Equalization Transfers by : Anwar Shah
Download or read book A Framework for Evaluating Alternate Institutional Arrangements for Fiscal Equalization Transfers written by Anwar Shah and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiscal equalization programs are fairly common features of intergovernmental fiscal relations in industrial countries. Some developing countries have also recently introduced these programs and still others are contemplating such programs. Institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization vary across countries with wide variations in the form and membership of the relevant decisionmaking bodies. This paper provides a simple neo-institutional economics framework for assessing alternative institutional arrangements for their impacts on simplicity, transparency, and objectivity of the equalization program, as well as transaction costs for various parties involved. Comparing institutional arrangements across different countries is a daunting task. The success of these arrangements depends on a multitude of factors. The success of governance structures for fiscal matters may depend not only on the incentives regime associated with their inner structures but also their interactions with other formal and informal institutions in the country. This paper presents a simple framework to understand these incentives and interactions and draw implications for their impacts on transactions costs for the society as a whole and achievement of societal objectives. An application of these concepts to the specific case of institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization transfers are carried out and the predictions based on the theory are compared with observed experiences in major federal countries. The paper demonstrates that the simple new institutional framework presented here has a significant power for predicting potential impacts. The paper concludes, both in theory and practice, that the case for independent grants commission to enhance the transparency, equity, and accountability of the intergovernmental finance system is vastly exaggerated.
