Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent?

Richard Bird

International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU from International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Abstract: Canada, Russia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Macedonia, Switzerland, South Africa, China, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain, Uganda, the Philippines, Tanzania, India, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Turkey, Serbia, Algeria, Sudan, Moldova, Morocco, Cameroon, even France…What can such a diverse set of countries (and many others) have in common? The answer is that each contains within its boundaries a significant territorially-based group of people who are (or consider themselves to be) distinct and different – in ethnicity, in language, in religion, or just in history --from the majority population. Indeed, contrary to the view -- one might say “mythology” of the nation-state as a unified and homogeneous entity -- such multi-ethnic countries (called “fragmented” societies by Bird and Stauffer, 2001 ) – exist throughout the world.

Keywords: symmetric; Fiscal Decentralization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2003-04-01
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