TY - BOOK AU - Shah,Anwar TI - Macro federalism and local finance T2 - Public sector governance and accountability series SN - 0821363263 AV - HJ197 .M33 2008 U1 - 336 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - World Bank KW - Decentralization in government KW - Case studies KW - Federal government KW - Finance, Public KW - Intergovernmental fiscal relations KW - Local finance 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 countires: a comparative review / Sebastian Eckardt and Anwar Shah UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-6326-3 ER -