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Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent?

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  • Richard M. Bird

    (Director of the International Tax Program, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

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Canada, Russia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Macedonia, Switzerland, South Africa, China, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain, Uganda, the Philippines, Tanzania, India, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Turkey, Serbia, Algeria, Sudan, Moldova, Morocco, Cameroon, even France…What can such a diverse set of countries (and many others) have in common? The answer is that each contains within its boundaries a significant territorially-based group of people who are (or consider themselves to be) distinct and different – in ethnicity, in language, in religion, or just in history --from the majority population. Indeed, contrary to the view -- one might say “mythology” of the nation-state as a unified and homogeneous entity -- such multi-ethnic countries (called “fragmented” societies by Bird and Stauffer, 2001 ) – exist throughout the world.

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  • Richard M. Bird, 2003. "Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent?," International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0309, International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University.
    • Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper0309
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    1. Бухарский В. В. & Лавров А. М., 2021. "Межбюджетные Отношения И Государственное Управление: Возможности И Ограничения Децентрализации," Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления // Public administration issues, НИУ ВШЭ, issue 2, pages 126-153.
    2. Alexander Libman, 2012. "Sub-national political regimes and asymmetric fiscal decentralization," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 302-336, December.

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    symmetric; Fiscal Decentralization;

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