Fiscal Equalization

- Introduction: Challenges in the Design of Fiscal Eqaulization and Intergovernmental Transfers.
- The Nature of Equalization - Objectives and Consequences: Fiscal Capacity Equalization and Economic Efficiency: The Case of Australia.
- Ensuring Inter-regional Equity and Poverty Reduction.
- The Impact of Equalization on Service Delivery.
- Harmonizing Objectives and Outcomes at the National and Sub-national Levels through Citizen Engagement and Capacity Building (with special references to the Philippines).
- Discussant comments.
- The Institutional Setting.
- A Framework for Evaluating Alternate Institutional Arrangements for Fiscal Equalization Transfers.
- Intergovernmental Transfers: The Funding Rule and Mechanisms.
- Intergovernmental Iransfers: The Vertical Sharing Dimension.
- Discussant comments.
- Challenges in Implementing Equalization.
- Expenditure-Based Equalization Transfers.
- Designing Intergovernmental Equalization Transfers with Imperfect Data: Concepts, Practices, and Lessons.
- A Model for Public Infrastructure Eqaulization in Transitional Economies.
- Discussant comments.
- The Relationship of Equalization to Other Policies.
- Revenue Sharing, Natural Resources and Fiscal Eqaulization.
- The Nature and Functions of Tied Grants.
- Intergovernmental Loans: Their Fit into a Transfer System.
- Discussant comments.
- The Bigger Picture.
- The Political Economy of Equalization Transfers.
- Discussant comments.
- Index.