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How to Design Subnational Fiscal Rules

March 13, 2022 LPSAManager

Mismanagement of subnational finances can entail large economic and social costs, not only within theaffected jurisdiction, but also for a country as a whole. History offers many examples of costly bailouts of subnational governments by […]

Local government finances during the “Great Recession”

March 26, 2018 LPS Alliance

This report–written by Professor Harold (Hal) Wolman for the German Marshall Fund of the United States –examines how national government policy, and particularly national grant systems, affected local governments during the “Great Recession” and its […]