Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries [Hardcover]

Important research from leading scholars assessing fiscal decentralization in developing countries.Fiscal Decentralisation in Developing Countries: An Overview edited by Professors Bird and Vaillancourt and features important, original and up-to-date research from leading scholars assessing fiscal decentralisation in developing countries. With rich and varied case-study material from countries as diverse as India, China, Colombia, Bosnia-Herzogovina and South Africa this is a superb complemantary volume to the recent Cambridge collection Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations edited by David Wildasin, which presented theoretical advances in this crucial area of research.Fiscal Decentralisation in Developing Countries: An Overview edited by Professors Bird and Vaillancourt and features important, original and up-to-date research from leading scholars assessing fiscal decentralisation in developing countries. With rich and varied case-study material from countries as diverse as India, China, Colombia, Bosnia-Herzogovina and South Africa this is a superb complemantary volume to the recent Cambridge collection Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations edited by David Wildasin, which presented theoretical advances in this crucial area of research.Fiscal Decentralisation in Developing Countries features important, original and up-to-date research from leading scholars assessing fiscal decentralization in developing countries. It has rich and varied case-study material from countries as diverse as India, China, Colombia, Bosnia-Herzogovina and South Africa.List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Fiscal decentralization in developing countries: an overview Richard M. Bird and Fran?ois Vaillancourt; 2. China: evaluating the impact of intergovernmental fiscal reform Roy W. Bahl; 3. India: intergovernmental fiscal relations in a planned economy M. Govinda Rao; 4. Indonesia and Pakistan: fiscal decentralization - an elusive goal? Anwar Shah; 5. Morocco and Tunisia: finlS$