Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83880 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 633
Publisher: 
University of California, Economics Department, Santa Cruz, CA
Abstract: 
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard components of expenditure and revenue assignments and institutions for intergovernmental transfers, as well as the nature of subnational authorities over general economic activity. In particular, the case of China, where town and village enterprises have been very active, is contrasted with that of India, where local governments remain circumscribed in their authority, despite decentralizing reforms. The implications of differences in decentralization for fiscal outcomes and economic growth are discussed. The characterization of each country in terms of concepts of federalism, i.e., competitive, cooperative and market preserving federalism, is discussed, in attempting to abstract from the two cases to more general lessons for fiscal decentralization.
Subjects: 
cooperative federalism
competitive federalism
market-preserving federalism
decentralization
economic development
JEL: 
P26
P35
H1
H7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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