Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Roy Bahl
Author-Email: rbahl@gsu.edu 
Author-Homepage: http://aysps.gsu.edu/BahlR.html
Author-Workplace-Name: Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://aysps.gsu.edu/index.html
Title: Implementation Rules For Fiscal Decentralization 
Abstract:Rule #1 Fiscal decentralization should be viewed as a comprehensive system.Rule #2 
 Finance follows function.Rule #3There must be a strong central ability to monitor
 and evaluate decentralization.Rule #4 One intergovernmental system does not fit the urban
 and the rural sector. Rule #5 Fiscal decentralization requires significant local government
 taxing powers.Rule #6 Central governments must keep the fiscal decentralization rules that
 they make .Rule #7 Keep it simple. Rule #8 The design of the intergovernmental transfer system
 should match the objectives of the decentralization reform .Rule #9 Fiscal decentralization
 should consider all three levels of government. Rule #10 Impose a hard budget constraint.
 Rule #11 Recognize that intergovernmental systems are always in transition and plan for this.
 Rule #12 There must be a champion for fiscal decentralization .
Keywords:  Implementation Rules,Fiscal Decentralization 
Length:34 pages
Creation-Date: 1999-01-01
File-URL:http://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2015/03/ispwp9803.pdf
File-Format:application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper9803