Fiscal decentralization and the challenge of hard budget constraints [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan Rodden, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvack

Title	Fiscal decentralization and the challenge of hard budget constraints [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan Rodden, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvack
Imprint	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003
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Descript	x, 476 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

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 / Jฒrn Rattsฒ -- 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

Fiscal policy Intergovernmental fiscal relations Electronic books.