Incentives to Provide Local Public Goods: Fiscal Federalism, Russian Style

Ekaterina V. Zhuravskaya

Chapter 12 in The Economics of Transition, 2007, pp 424-454 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The performance of the Russian economy stands in striking contrast to the performance of several other countries in Eastern Europe and Asia that have also undertaken economic reforms. Real Russian GDP had been declining for eight years and stabilized in 19971 for a short period of time, whereas Poland and China, for example, have benefited from continued high growth. This chapter argues that inefficient intergovernmental relations are a possibly important reason why Russia lags behind other countries in economic growth. In particular, this chapter provides evidence that the structure of revenue sharing between regional and local governments affects governments’ incentives to foster business growth and to provide public goods effciently.

Date: 2007
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-74092-5_12

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781349740925

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-74092-5_12

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().