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Challenge to Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Pakistan: The Revenue Assignment Dimension

In: Decentralization in Developing Countries

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  • Roy Bahl
  • Musharraf Cyan
  • Sally Wallace

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This insightful study examines the decentralization experiences from 15 countries in different regions of the world. All of these countries have actively attempted to decentralize, or continue to do so, and have faced obstacles serious enough to either derail or significantly delay their decentralization objectives.

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  • Roy Bahl & Musharraf Cyan & Sally Wallace, 2011. "Challenge to Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Pakistan: The Revenue Assignment Dimension," Chapters, in: Jorge Martinez-Vazquez & François Vaillancourt (ed.), Decentralization in Developing Countries, chapter 4, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Roy Bahl, 2017. "Metropolitan city finances in Asia and the Pacific region: issues, problems and reform options," MPDD Working Paper Series WP/17/04, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

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