Fiscal effects of foreign aid in a federal system of governance: The case of India

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 307-330

  Swaroop, Vinaya ^a   Jha, Shikha ^b   Sunil Rajkumar, Andrew ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Development and non development government expenditures; E62; Federal system; Foreign aid; Fungibility; India; O23

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034259424     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(00)00070-0     Document Type: Article

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