Fiscal competition is a desirable feature insofar as it promotes a better match between local policies and the preferences of residents, and creates an environment for experimentation of different policies, with the best outcomes surviving through a mechanism of natural selection. Furthermore,...

This paper considers some facets of the recent Brazilian experience in fiscal decentralization. For this purpose, it describes the pattern of fiscal decentralization in Brazil and, subsequently, discusses some events of the nineties pertaining to fiscal relations in the federation. Historically,...

Esta publicación tiene por objetivos presentar los trabajos analizados en el Taller Técnico sobre Impacto Fiscal de la Integración organizado por el Departamento de Integración y Programas Regionales del BID, a través de INTAL en junio del 2003 en Buenos Aires con el objetivo de analizar...