Financing Decentralized Expenditures

一个国际米兰national Comparison of Grants

Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-local Finance series

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

Financing Decentralized Expenditures presents new original research papers on the structure of intergovernmental fiscal relations in virtually all types of countries and the design and implementation of transfer mechanisms between different levels of government.

‘. . . 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.’
——Kyklos Anand n就是为了

‘. . . the book can be recommended for its very useful country chapters.’
– David King, The Economic Journal

‘In this volume, Ehtisham Ahmad has assembled a rich collection of studies of intergovernmental grant systems from around the world. For the first time, we have access in a single volume to descriptions and critical assessments of grant systems from a wide range of industrialised and developing countries including Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Scandinavian countries, India, Korea, Indonesia and China . . . It provides a rich source of material to guide both scholars and practitioners in thinking about the design of systems of intergovernmental grants.’
– Wallace E. Oates, University of Maryland, and Resources for the Future, US