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Title:

Fiscal decentralization and the challenge of hard budget constraints / edited by Jonathan Rodden, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvack.

Publisher:

MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

x, 476 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fiscal policy
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Belastingpolitiek.
Decentralisatie.

Other Authors:

Rodden, Jonathan.
Eskeland, Gunnar S.
Litvack, Jennie I. (Jennie Ilene), 1963-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Transfers and bailouts: enforcing local fiscal discipline with lessons from U.S. federalism / Robert P. Inman -- Constraining subnational fiscal behavior in Canada: different approaches, similar results? / Richard M. Bird and Almos Tassonyi -- Vertical imbalance and fiscal behavior in a welfare state: Norway / Jørn Rattsø -- Soft budget constraints and German federalism / Jonathan Rodden -- Argentina: hardening the provincial budget constraint / Stephen B. Webb -- Federalism and bailouts in Brazil / Jonathan Rodden -- The challenge of fiscal discipline in the Indian states / William J. McCarten -- Soft budget constraints and local government in China / Jing Jin and Heng-fu Zou -- Creating incentives for fiscal discipline in the new South Africa / Junaid Ahmad -- Systematic soft budget constraints in Ukraine / Sean O'Connell and Deborah Wetzel -- Strengthening hard budget constraints in Hungary / Deborah Wetzel and Anita Papp -- Lessons and conclusions / Jonathan Rodden and Gunnar S. Eskeland.

ISBN:

9780262182294 (hc. : alk. paper)
0262182297 (hc. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50314814

LCCN:

2002029553

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)