Intergovernmental equalization grants have been described as “the glue that holds a nation together.” Getting the grants system right is critical to countries as they decentralize. This paper illustrates general principles with an example based on Indonesia in 2000. A general grant should be...

Las metrópolis, amplias zonas densamente pobladas en las que variados entes territoriales gravitan sobre un núcleo metropolitano, son reconocidas como las formas territoriales dominantes al comando de la economía global y, sin embargo, no gozan de reconocimiento político. Los niveles...

Governing the environment is a complex task. The actual governance structure is the result of various processes occurred in many years. A political economy approach should be adopted to investigate the role of fiscal tools when environmental policies take place in a multi-layered structure of...

This book analyzes the reasons for lackluster performance selected Latin American countries in mobilizing subnational own-source revenues and explores policy options to increase these revenues as efficiently and equitably as possible. Seven case studies--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,...

This important two volume work includes a comprehensive introduction to the literature by the editors and contains the major articles on economic justice written during the last 50 years.

Although fiscal (de)centralization literature explains easily the centralization of taxes on the basis of a superior tax administration capacity, it finds more difficult to argue why in federal and decentralized systems subnational governments are ready to accept the demise of their taxing...

The present paper focuses on the environmental impact deriving from the production of oil and gas and how it can be controlled by using both taxing and/or regulatory instruments. The incentive to use regulations and their impact depends on the level of government to which the regulatory...

Our statistical results confirm the hypothesis of a general upward shift in the spending function between 1971 and 1975. Both the constant and most coefficients of our estimated spending functions increased since 1971 indicating an increase in both the average and marginal propensity to spend....

To explore the impact of quotas on women's political representation, this study estimates a conditional multinomial logit for the probability of voting for men and women, utilizing data that includes all regional candidates in four Italian regions in 1995 and 2000. This regional electoral system...