Overview -- India's urban fiscal problem -- A portfolio of municipal taxes -- Taxation of urban land value -- Reforming the property tax -- User charges, benefit charges and fees -- Inter-governmental transfers to municipalities -- Development financing instruments -- Value creation, capture and...

Do intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)? There is already a well-established body of literature in public finance, which argues that intergovernmental grants 'crowd out' local revenues. Most existing studies, however, explore the fiscal...