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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827767003321

Titolo

Managing fiscal decentralization / / edited by Ehtisham Ahmad and Vito Tanzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

0-429-22996-8

1-280-05406-9

0-203-21999-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 384 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge studies in the modern world economy

Altri autori (Persone)

AhmadEhtisham

TanziVito

Disciplina

336.3

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Fiscal policy - Developing countries

Decentralization in government

Decentralization in government - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Managing Fiscal Decentralization; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Managing fiscal decentralization: Overview; Part I General themes; 1 Pitfalls on the road to fiscal decentralization; 2 An introduction to decentralization failure; 3 Localization and corruption: panacea or Pandora's box?; 4 Does decentralization serve the poor?; Part II The European Union; 5 Decentralization and supranationality: the case of the European Union; 6 Consensus democracy and interjurisdictional fiscal solidarity in Germany

7 Asymmetric fiscal decentralization in Italy and Spain; Part III Transition economies; 8 The effectiveness of decentralization in Hungary and Slovakia; 9 Reforming fiscal federalist relations in Russia: Centralization of resources and decentralization of autonomy; 10 Recentralization in China?; Part IV Developing countries; 11 Argentina: Coordination of subnational borrowing; 12 Brazil: An evolving federation; 13 Fiscal decentralization in Indian federalism; 14 Indonesia: Managing decentralization; 15 Decentralization in Africa; 16



Fiscal decentralization in South Africa: A practitioner's perspective; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The growth of interest in fiscal decentralization has meant that there has been something of a rush to enshrine this in policy - The World Bank has reported that about seventy countries see this as a major part of their development strategy. This book critically examines the case for decentralization. This collection of contributions comes from a worldwide team of experts, including Albert Breton, Piero Giarda and Anwar Shah.