TY - BOOK AU - Shah,Anwar TI - Macro federalism and local finance SN - 9780821363263 U1 - 336 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - World Bank KW - Intergovernmental fiscal relations KW - Case studies KW - Federal government KW - Local finance KW - Decentralization in government KW - Finance, Public N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Macro federalism: an introduction with principal reference to the Canadian experience / Thomas J. Courchene -- Globalization, the information revolution, and emerging imperatives for rethinking fiscal federalism / Anwar Shah -- Federalism and macroeconomic performance / Anwar Shah -- Regional income disparities and covergence: measurement and policy impact evolution / Raja Shankar and Anwar Shah -- Harmonizing taxation of interstate trade under a sub-national VAT: lessons from international experience / Mahesh C. Purohit -- Subnational borrowing, insolvency and regulation / Lili Liu and Michael Waibel -- A local perspective on fiscal federalism: practices, experiences, and lessons from industrial countries / Melville L. McMillan -- Decentralized governance in developing and transition countries: a comparative review / Sebastian Eckardt and Anwar Shah UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0811/2008006103.html ER -