Local Governments' Fiscal Balance, Privatization, and Banking Sector Reform in Transition Countries /

Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances, unless the right incentives are in place to promote fisca...

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Autore principale: Crivelli, Ernesto
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/146
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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