Financing Decentralized Expenditures

Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad, London School of Economics, UK, Chinese Academy of Fiscal Science and Zhejiang University, China

• Contents: Foreword (W.Oates) Acknowledgements 1. Intergovernmental Transfers – An International Perspective (E. Ahmad) 2. Assessing Provincial Revenue-Raising Capacity for Transfers (D.H. Clark) 3. Expenditure Needs: Institutions and Data (C.R. Rye, B. Searle) 4. The Fiscal Transfer System in Canada (D.H. Clark) 5. Intergovernmental Transfers in Switzerland and Germany (P.B. Spahn) 6. The Fiscal Transfer System in Australia (C.R. Rye, B. Searle) 7. Denmark and Other Scandinavian Countries: Equalization and Grants (J.R. Lotz) 8. Financing Regional and Local Governments – Italy and Spain (G. Brosio) 9. Intergovernmental Transfers in India (M.G. Rao) 10. Local Autonomy and Fiscal Resources in Korea (S.K. Kim) 11. Fiscal Transfers in Indonesia (Z. Qureshi) 12. The New Revenue-Sharing Arrangement in China: An Illustrative Example ( D. Mihaljek) 13. Constraints in Reforming the Transfer System in China (L. Jiwei) 14. Types of Transfers - A General Formulation (E. Ahmad, R. Thomas)

'. . . the book is a useful addition to the literature on fiscal federalism and state-local finance as for the first time in one volume one can find analysis of grant systems of several countries.'