Decentralization of the Socialist State: Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies

摘要

The aim of the book is to provide as accurate a picture from a policy perspective as is possible at this early stage of the emerging process of fiscal decentralization in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Chapter 1 is a comparative overview of the nature of intergovernmental finance in transition economies. The relatively advanced case of Hungary is then discussed in chapter 2, followed by a detailed look in chapter 3 at how the Budagpest municipal government is operating within Hungary's emerging intergovernmental system. Chapter 4 discusses Poland, which, like Hungary, is making important progress toward public sector reform. The next four chapters, 5 through 8, examine countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and Ukraine) in which the reform of intergovernmental finance is at earlier stages. Finally, Chapters 9 and 10 take a close look at recent developments in Russia, by far the largest and most complex of the countries examined here and the only one with a truly federal character.