This paper examines the relationship between federal transfers and fiscal deficits in India. The system of federal …

This paper examines the relationship between federal transfers and fiscal deficits in India. The system of federal …

This paper examines the relationship between federal transfers and fiscal deficits in India. The system of federal …

This paper examines the relationship between federal transfers and fiscal deficits in India. The system of federal …

Already in precarious shape, the financial health of India's states took a turn for the worse in the late 1990s when … state deficits and debt rose sharply. While India is among the world's most decentralized economies, greater …

, focusing on the plausibility of incorporating gender into financial devolution, with the Thirteenth Finance Commission of India … the prosperous states of India—there can be no valid objection to using Finance Commission transfers for this purpose. A … can and should play a role in upholding the right to life for India’s girl children. That being said, it needs to be …

of the Planning Commission, the creation of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, the … Council and Finance Commissions, and if India should devise a mechanism of transfer that is predominantly based on sharing of … tensions in federal-state relations in India. …