Financial Relationships between Regional and Municipal Authorities: Insights from the Examination of Five OECD Countries
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McMillan, Melville L.
Date
2004
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working paper
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en
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This paper reviews the intergovernmental fiscal arrangements of local governments in five countries and provides a comparative assessment with the objective being to derive lessons to aid in the structuring of better fiscal arrangements between local and other governments. Although most local governments are municipal governments, there are often many other types of local governments that are also important but for which arrangements may differ. Hence, because the distinction is often important, the practice here is usually to refer to local governments or local authorities unless a specific type (e.g., municipalities) is under discussion. Federal countries get most of the attention here so relations between local and regional (provincial and state) governments are particularly important because they usually dominate, but those with the federal government are not neglected. Financial relations dominate the attention here but important intergovernmental fiscal relationships extend beyond those and so some attention is paid to other matters.
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Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations