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Author-Name:Richard M. Bird
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Author-Workplace-Name:Director of the International Tax Program, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
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Title: Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization: Glue or Solvent? 
Abstract:Canada, Russia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Macedonia, Switzerland, South Africa, China, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain, Uganda, the Philippines, Tanzania, India,
 Rwanda, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Turkey, Serbia, Algeria, Sudan, Moldova, Morocco, Cameroon, even France…What can such a diverse set of countries
 (and many others) have in common? The answer is that each contains within its boundaries a significant territorially-based group of people who are 
(or consider themselves to be) distinct and different – in ethnicity, in language, in religion, or just in history --from the majority population. Indeed, contrary to the view
 -- one might say “mythology” of the nation-state as a unified and homogeneous entity -- such multi-ethnic countries 
(called “fragmented” societies by Bird and Stauffer, 2001 ) – exist throughout the world. 
Keywords: symmetric, Fiscal Decentralization
Length: 27 pages
Creation-Date: 2003-04-01
File-URL:http://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2015/03/ispwp0309.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper0309