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Show 17 authorities and considerable agencies need considerable autonomy, and support safeguards government needs mechanisms monitoring of programs and Bank 2001a, pp. As for a policies by the high levels center. of all sectors of the fiscal matters, Moreover, participation population to as well as decentralized in the design and be served" (World 106-7). interregional redistribution federal structure the national to ensure from including of income, the public choice important constitutional arrangement that as an government to redistribute resources from one perspective views limits the capacity of state to another. As Brennan and Hamlin put it: Just the possibility of mobility between states limits the possibility of redistribution within states, so the possibility of exit by states limits the possibility of redistribution between states. In other words, if states have a right as secede this will place a limit on the ability of the federal redistribute between states, since no state would tolerate government made worse off than it would be as an independent entity. Of being course, these limits on the power of the federal government may not be to to very restrictive in practice, but mobility/succession is not the only issue in the analysis of redistribution policy in federations. (Brennan and Hamlin 1998, p. 147) Whatever the debate of poverty and income on the relevant jurisdiction for income inequality in developing countries has issue to the forefront of the fiscal federalism literature. In traditional now theory emphasizes the efficiency aspect become central to the debate countries. In on of distribution, the level brought spite the redistribution of the fact that the decentralization, redistribution decentralization of public services in has developing fact, the primary motivation for decentralization in developing countries is not so much the potential efficiency gains, promote equitable development. but rather the need to alleviate poverty and |
