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This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and … development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal … institutions, the analysis focuses on the major issues with respect to India’s federal system in terms of their developmental …
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This paper underscores the substantial spatial disparities across India and evaluates the case for putting together … predictability needed to ensure that India's state driven growth blossoms and attains full fruition. …
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This paper examines varies areas of India´s fiscal policy, in particular fiscal discipline, the structure of government … within India so that goods can move between states without border controls. Finally, on fiscal federalism it finds that India … bodies and delivered through the annual budget. While overall, India´s fiscal federalism has worked well moving resources …
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This paper compares the tax system in China with the tax system in OECD countries and the tax reforms China and OECD … countries have implemented in the past. The analysis focuses on those taxes and tax issues which are currently on China’s reform …. The paper provides a (preliminary) analysis of the tax-to-GDP ratio and the tax mix in China as well as the average and …
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devolution reforms, China is the ideal context to examine the causes, processes, and effects of fiscal decentralization, which … advancements in the area of fiscal decentralization in China over the past decades. The processes, characteristics, and … knowledge about fiscal decentralization in China contributive, accumulative, and sustainable. …
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The recent process of political and economic transformation in eastern European countries has not only contributed to the decentralisation of political structure but also significantly enhanced the fiscal autonomy of municipalities in these countries. In this context many similar types of public...
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A well known result in the tax competition literature is that tax rates are set too low in the Nash equilibrium to finance an efficient level of public consumption goods. In this model we introduce international spillovers in public goods provision and show that such spillovers reduce, and in...
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This paper explores the benefits and costs of the voter initiative, a direct democracy device that allows voters to make policy decisions without involving their elected representatives. Previous research suggests that by introducing quot;competitionquot; into the proposal process, the...
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The federal income tax code provides an incentive for developers to organize homes for different types of families as a single heterogeneous community. The property tax deduction and a progressive rate structure cause the property tax to be subsidized at a rate which increases with family...
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The main purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of fiscal cooperation on local taxation in a decentralized country, using the French experience in urban municipalities. We estimate a model of tax setting for local business tax using spatial and dynamic econometric techniques, for the...
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