State-Local Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer (IGFT) in India: Identification of Indicators

V N Alok ()
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V N Alok: Indian Institute of Public Administration

Chapter Chapter 2 in Fiscal Decentralization in India, 2021, pp 19-31 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Constitutionally, there is a wide disparity between assignment of revenue powers and expenditure responsibilities to the local governments and therefore, IGFT has to be designed for local governments with an objective to enhance their fiscal capacity. The chapter defines and presents measures of fiscal attributes, viz. fiscal needs, fiscal capacity, fiscal effort and disability factor which have been considered for an optimal design of IGFT. Examination of state finance commissions’ reports, in India, reveals that the States have undertaken such criterion reflecting these attributes to transfer resources to local governments from states’ kitty.

Keywords: Intergovernmental fiscal transfers; Fiscal attributes; Fiscal capacity; Fiscal effort; Cost disability; Need disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-2203-8_2

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