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The political economy of India's federal system and its reform
Govinda Rao, Marapalli; Singh, Nirvikar - 2004 - Revised April 2004
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 political economy of India's fiscal federal system and its reform
Govinda Rao, Marapalli; Singh, Nirvikar - 2006
; federalism ; regional inequalities …
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Ex-Post Redistribution in a Federation : Implications for Corrective Policy
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2006
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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Strengthening India's State Finance Commissions : Essential for 'Co-Operative Federalism'
Asher, Mukul G. - 2016
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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Horizontal Federalism
Erbsen, Allan - 2009
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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The Federal Approach to Fiscal Decentralisation : Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - 2006
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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Crisis and state transformation : Covid-19, levelling up and the UK’s incoherent state
Richards, David; Warner, Sam; Smith, Martin J.; Coyle, Diane - In: Cambridge journal of regions, economy and society 16 (2023) 1, pp. 31-48
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Towards a fiscal union? : on the acceptability of a fiscal transfer system in the eurozone
Hebous, Shafik; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2015
There is a large, but yet growing debate about the need to complement the European monetary union with a stronger fiscal union. This paper reviews the potential trade-offs between effectiveness, moral hazard problems, and permanent redistribution. In particular, we contribute to the question of...
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On enhanced cooperation
Bordignon, Massimo; Brusco, Sandro - 2003
Should a subset of member states of a federation be allowed to form a sub-union on some policy issue? When centralization is not politically feasible, allowing an enhanced cooperation agreement among a subset of countries permits the latter to gain benefits which would otherwise be lost....
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How Do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs. Expenditure Optimization
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2008
governments and, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behaviour in fiscal federalism …
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