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1. Local Revenues Under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries

   Linking Policy Reform, Governance, and Capacity
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Paul Smoke

   Paul Smoke examines local revenue generation under fiscal decentralization in developing countries. He finds that local capacity for generating own-source funds is rare due to a lack of attention to...

2. Interjurisdictional Competition Under U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Sally Wallace

   Similar to the decentralization of environmental policy, scholars and analysts also express concerns about the welfare effects of interjurisdictional competition on economic development under U.S....

3. Fiscal Decentralization and Income Distribution

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepulveda

   A major challenge of fiscal decentralization is its effects on income distribution. Theoretical discussions have questioned whether decentralization increases regional disparities when subnational...

4. Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Thomas J. Nechyba

   The traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...

5. Community Associations

   Decentralizing Local Government Privately
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Robert H. Nelson

   In this paper, Robert H. Nelson describes an important change in local governance structure under the U.S. federal system. There has been a rapid increase in the number of residence-based, voluntary...