Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries

Klappentext Important research from leading scholars assessing fiscal decentralization in developing countries. Zusammenfassung This title provides important research from leading scholars assessing fiscal decentralization in developing countries. The volume offers rich and varied case-study material from countries as diverse as India! China! Colombia! Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Fiscal decentralization in developing countries: an overview Richard M. Bird and François Vaillancourt; 2. China: evaluating the impact of intergovernmental fiscal reform Roy W. Bahl; 3. India: intergovernmental fiscal relations in a planned economy M. Govinda Rao; 4. Indonesia and Pakistan: fiscal decentralization - an elusive goal? Anwar Shah; 5. Morocco and Tunisia: financing local governments - the impact on infrastructure finance François Vaillancourt; 6. Colombia: the central role of the central government in fiscal decentralization Richard M. Bird and Ariel Fiszbein; 7. Argentina: fiscal federalism and decentralization Ernesto Rezk; 8. South Africa: an intergovernmental fiscal system in transition Junaid K. Ahmad; 9. Bosnia-Herzegovina: fiscal federalism - the Dayton challenge William Fox and Christine Wallich; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Richard M. Bird, Richard M. Vaillancourt Bird
• Assisted by: Richard M. Bird (Editor), Fran Ois Vaillancourt (Editor), Francois Vaillancourt (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521101585
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10158-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Trade and Development; Print on Demand
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics