Federal Reform Strategies: Lessons from Asia and Australia

Edited by Stephen Howes and M. Govinda Rao

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Abstract: For large countries, an agenda of integration, deregulation, and natural resource management reform typically cannot be fully pursued without the active participation of sub-national governments. Most of the literature about federalism and reform is about the reform of federalism, and focuses on intergovernmental finance. This volume is about reform through federalism. It explores federal reform strategies, that is, ways in which central governments can motivate, influence, and ensure coordination of sub-national policies. It covers such mechanisms as the imposition of conditions on earmarked funding from central to subnational governments, the provision of incentive funding awarded if certain reforms are undertaken, the development of cross-government agreements, and the centralization of power from the subnational level to the central government. By exploring a range of case studies, drawn mainly from India and Australia, but also covering Indonesia and China, including both successes and failures, this volume not only fills the existing gaps in the literature relating to federal reform strategies, but also builds a typology of strategies and draws some tentative lessons from experience. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780198092001/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Stephen Howes, Director, International and Development Economics, and Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; M. Govinda Rao, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, and Member, Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India; Daniel Connell, Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Sam Engele, Principal Advisor, Expenditure Review Directorate, The Treasury, Government of New South Wales; Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Nirvikar Singh, Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Sherry Tao Kong, Associate Professor, China Institute of Social Science Survey, Peking University, Beijing, China; Tapas K. Sen, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi; Vikram K. Chand, Senior Public Sector Management Specialist, World Bank, New Delhi; Fitrian Ardiansyah, Former Advisor and Program Director for Climate and Energy, WWF Indonesia; Paul Gretton, Assistant Commissioner, Australian Government Productivity Commission.

Date: 2013
ISBN: 9780198092001
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