Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Jorge Martinez-Vazquez 
Author-Email: jorgemartinez@gsu.edu 
Author-Homepage: https://icepp.gsu.edu/profile/jorge-martinez-vazquez/
Author-Workplace-Name:  International Studies Program. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Author-Workplace-Homepage:  https://icepp.gsu.edu/
Author-Name:Cristian Sepúlveda
Author-Email: csepulveda@gsu.edu
Author-Homepage: http://aysps.gsu.edu/isp/SepulvedaC.html
Author-Workplace-Name: International Studies Program. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Author-Workplace-Homepage: https://icepp.gsu.edu/
Title: The Municipal Transfer System in Nicaragua: Evaluation and Proposals for Reform 
Abstract: For almost 20 years, the Nicaraguan authorities have been implementing a fiscal decentralization process to devolve an increasing degree
 of autonomy to municipalities. As a part of this process, and mainly due to the efforts of the Association of Municipalities of Nicaragua 
(AMUNIC is the acronym in Spanish), the first municipal transfers were approved in just 1999. Later, the funds available for the municipalities 
were increased gradually as a percentage of the General Budget (PGR), until in August 2003 the new Law of Municipal Transfers set 
this percentage at 4% of the total central government tax revenues in 2004, and stated that it should be increased at least by 0,5% per year 
up to 10% of the PGR in 2010. In 2005 the transfer program corresponded to 5% of the PGR, whereas in the present year the percentage increased to 6%.
Keywords: fiscal decentralization, Municipal Transfer System, Nicaragua, local government
Length: 93 pages
Creation-Date: 2008-02-01
File-URL: http://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2015/03/ispwp0801.pdf
File-Format:application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper0801