Screen LibraryFiscal decentralization and the challenge of hard budget constraints
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 476 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0262182297 (hc. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F81 |
| CLC: | F81 |
| Call Number: | F81/F528 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Transfers and bailouts: enforcing local fiscal discipline with lessons from U.S. federalism / Robert P. Inman -- Constraining subnational fiscal behavior in Canada: different approaches, similar results? / Richard M. Bird and Almos Tassonyi -- Vertical imbalance and fiscal behavior in a welfare state: Norway / Jørn Rattsø -- Soft budget constraints and German federalism / Jonathan Rodden -- Argentina: hardening the provincial budget constraint / Stephen B. Webb -- Federalism and bailouts in Brazil / Jonathan Rodden -- The challenge of fiscal discipline in the Indian states / William J. McCarten -- Soft budget constraints and local government in China / Jing Jin and Heng-fu Zou -- Creating incentives for fiscal discipline in the new South Africa / Junaid Ahmad -- Systematic soft budget constraints in Ukraine / Sean O'Connell and Deborah Wetzel -- Strengthening hard budget constraints in Hungary / Deborah Wetzel and Anita Papp -- Lessons and conclusions / Jonathan Rodden and Gunnar S. Eskeland. |