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Intergovernmental transfers

Australia

Conditional grants and the hidden politics of fiscal decentralization

December 19, 2025 LPS Alliance
In discussions on fiscal decentralization, conditional grants are often treated as a technical detail rather than a central feature of multilevel governance. Much of the debate focuses on revenue assignments, own-source taxation, or unconditional transfers, […]
Asia

Intergovernmental competition for donations in Japan

June 30, 2025 LPS Alliance
One of the reasons why countries provide local governments with intergovernmental fiscal transfers is to compensate for intergovernmental externalities. For instance, in many countries, people born in rural areas often move to urban areas when […]

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