Inter-governmental fiscal relations: The facilitator of fiscal decentralization

Constitutional Political Economy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 93-121

  Boadway, Robin ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Fiscal federalism; Intergovernment transfers

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542366253     PISSN: 10434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016693903035     Document Type: Article

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