Decentralization of the Socialist State: Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies

by Robert D. Ebel, Christine Wallich, Richard M. Bird

Emphasizes the importance of designing a well-functioning intergovernmental fiscal system for achieving the reform objectives of economies in transition.This study explores the issues involved in redesigning intergovernmental relations in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, where extensive political and fiscal decentralization is now underway. The volume focuses on the elements of decentralization in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821331868
• ISBN13: 9780821331866
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 464 Pages