Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations reform have become nearly ubiquitous in developing countries. Performance, however, has often been disappointing in terms of both policy formulation and outcomes. The dynamics underlying these results have been poorly researched....

Debido a la alta dependencia de las transferencias desde el gobierno federal, tradicionalmente se ha argumentado que existe un bajo esfuerzo fiscal en los estados mexicanos. Esta aproximación es parcial porque una evaluación completa del desempeño fiscal debe estar asociada con su potencial...

El sistema de financiación de las Comunidades Autónomas de régimen común que entró en vigor en el año 2002, ha significado un incremento importante de las competencias en materia tributaria (coparticipación de impuestos) de que disponen las mismas, estableciendo asimismo un nuevo sistema...

En este artículo se ofrece una metodología dirigida a cuantificar el grado de solidaridad interterritorial a través de los recursos con los que cuentan las Comunidades Autónomas (CCAA) procedentes, en su mayor parte, del sistema de financiación autonómica. Esta metodología se fundamenta...

Taxation is an important tool to enhance the economic development and to finance the expenditure responsibilities of a government. This paper attempts to measure the tax capacity and tax effort of 14 major Indian states from 1992-92 to 2010-11 using Stochastic Frontier Analysis. The use of tax...

Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations reform have become nearly ubiquitous in developing countries. Performance, however, has often been disappointing in terms of both policy formulation and outcomes. The dynamics underlying these results have been poorly researched....

This paper gives a review on the theoretical foundation for fiscal decentralisation and a status quo analysis of the intergovernmental relations in Mongolia. It consists of two parts. Part I briefly reviews the theories of fiscal decentralisation and its impact on the nations' welfare...

In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using data from composite budgets of all 216 MMDAs, we...

This paper offers a comprehensive and updated review of the effects of intergovernmental grants. We focus on the main findings in the existing literature on the effects of intergovernmental grants on tax policy and choices, expenditure decisions, fiscal stability and behavioral choices, and...