Financing metropolitan government in Beijing City

Roy Bahl () and Baoyun Qiao ()
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Roy Bahl: Regents Professor of Economics and Founding Dean, Emeritus, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Baoyun Qiao: Professor of Economics and Dean of China Academy of Public Finance Policy, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing

No WP/19/01, MPDD Working Paper Series from United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Abstract: Beijing is one of the most populous cities in the world, and its economy is still growing rapidly. It has the peculiar status of being both a province and a metropolitan city government, and it is home to the national capital. Both of these features challenge its expenditure demands and its finances. In this paper we explore the governance, service delivery and financing of the Beijing metropolitan area government. The basic question we ask is the extent to which Beijing City captures some of the advantages of being a metropolitan areawide government, and the extent to which it avoids some of the disadvantages. In particular, we are interested in whether metropolitan governance can lead to a higher rate of revenue mobilization at the local government level. Is there a next step that cities like Beijing might take to improve their fiscal position, and what can other countries learn from the Chinese experience with metropolitan government finance?

Keywords: Financing; metropolitan government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 E20 H00 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03
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