Higher-Order Fiscal Transfers to Local Governments: An Overview of Worldwide Practices

Harry Kitchen (), Melville McMillan and Anwar Shah
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Harry Kitchen: Trent University

Chapter Chapter 13 in Local Public Finance and Economics, 2019, pp 441-469 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents an overview of worldwide practices in higher-order fiscal transfers to local governments with a view to deriving lessons of interest to countries contemplating fiscal system reforms. The chapter presents an overview of the international practice in central/state fiscal transfers to local governments. It draws both positive and negative lessons from the international practice and provides pathways to design such transfers for state governments contemplating reform of their fiscal transfers to local governments.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21986-4_13

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