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National Finance Commission Awards in Pakistan : A Historical Perspective

Ahmed, Iftikhar; Mustafa, Usman; Khalid, Mahmood - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This study explores the evolution of fiscal resource distribution in Pakistan. Pakistan is a federation comprising four provinces, federallyadministered areas, and the Islamabad Capital Territory. Being a central type of government, most of the revenues are collected by the centre and then...

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Fiscal Health of Selected Indian Cities

Bandyopadhyay, Simanti; Rao, M. Govinda - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

The paper aims to assess the fiscal health of five urban agglomerations (UAs) in India viz. Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, and Pune. Our sample consists of five corporations and sixty three smaller Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) dispersed in thirteen districts of five major states. The main...

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Decentralization and Intergovernmental Finance in Japan

Aoki, Ichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

to form a politically modern centralized country. Although Japan experienced a number of major decentralization processes …. While political trends in the 1990s favored government decentralization, promotion of decentralization became a challenge … for successive Cabinets. In 1999, the Diet enacted the Package Promoting Decentralization Act; this law repealed the …

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Some Notes on Performance Management among Agencies

Llanto, Gilberto M.; Brownette, Sally - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

In the past few years, the government has developed and installed a unique model of performance-based budgeting known as the Organizational Performance Indicator Framework (OPIF). The OPIF demonstrates the relationship between an agencys programs, activities and projects (PAPs), the goods and...

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Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Public Good Provision in China

Ping, Xin-Qiao; Bai, Jie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

Fiscal incentive is closely related with the extra-budgetary revenues. Based on our definition of 'fiscal incentive', we explore the impacts of fiscal incentives under decentralisation on responsiveness of public good provision to real local needs. There are also some problems in fiscal...

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An Analysis of Household's Tobacco Consumption Decisions : Evidence from India

John, Rijo M - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2004

Tobacco products such as bidi and cigarette, both of which are smoked, cater to different kinds of households in India, and analyzing them separately may yield results that are useful for public policy. Hence, we analyze the consumption patterns, socio-economic distribution and the household...

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Price Elasticity Estimates for Tobacco and Other Addictive Goods in India

John, Rijo M - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fifteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are largely out of the tax net. Analysis of the price elasticity of various...

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Fiscal Federalism and Public Service Provision in Canada

Tremblay, Jean-FranÃƒffois - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

decentralization of the Canadian federation, reflected through the rising importance of provincial revenues and expenditures in the …

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Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development in Indian Fiscal Federalism

Sankar, U. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

This paper argues that the incorporation of new references in the Thirteenth Finance Commission mandate relating to ecology, environment and climate change and quality of public expenditure pose new challenges. The challenges arise because the operationalization of these items require various...

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Connecting South and Southeast Asia : Implementation Challenges and Coordination Arrangements

Thuzar, Moe; Mishra, Rahul; Hutchinson, Francis; Than, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014

With closer regional integration there is increasing interest within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and on the part of ASEANâ€™s dialogue partners in the potential gains of closer connections between Southeast Asia and South Asia. The strategic positions of India,...

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