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This paper analyzes the process of reform of India's federal system, with a focus on fiscal federalism. We first …
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This article examines the nature of India's federal system, and recent and potential reforms in its structure and working. We summarize key federal institutions in India, focusing particularly on the mechanisms for Center-state transfers. These transfers are large, and are the major explicit...
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The focus of this paper is unequal arrangements and special treatment for some units within Indian federalism, namely …. We first explore the conceptual issues - the causes and consequences of asymmetric federalism. Next, we trace the … evolution of Indian federalism and analyze the factors contributing to the asymmetric arrangements in political, administrative …
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The objective of this paper is to examine the nature of India's federal system, the reforms that have occurred over the last ten years, and what remains to be done. We begin by briefly describing the key federal institutions in India, focusing particularly on the mechanisms for center-state...
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This paper analyzes whether changes in the timing of equalizing transfers to state governments necessitate an adjustment in federal corrective policy. According to the existing literature (assuming an ex-ante choice of transfers), the corrective grant is equal to the marginal damage/benefit...
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The 73rd and 74th Amendments in 1992 to India's Constitution resulted in the establishment of the third-tier of government comprising of urban local bodies (ULBs) and Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). The amendments mandated the establishment of the State Finance Commissions (SFCs) at every...
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This Article constructs frameworks for analyzing federalism's undertheorized horizontal dimension. Discussions of … federalism generally focus on the hierarchical (or vertical) allocation of power between the national and state governments while … on state citizenship. This Article moves beyond the piecemeal approach by identifying facets of horizontal federalism …
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present time has to be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of fiscal federalism are crucial for … federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of whether it is being carried out in a federal or non …
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Musgravian externalities, formulated and illustrated by Musgrave in a 1966 paper on social goods are seen in this paper as one form of the interactions that occur between the components of a federation. The original formal apparatus is first exposed briefly. In that context, it is then...
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