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No. 22 | 27 Feb 2018 |
Improving the Performance of Sub-national Governments through Benchmarking and Performance Reporting
Performance systems are one tool available to central governments to improve the performance of sub-national service delivery. This paper provides a preliminary review of suitable metrics and mechanisms to reliably measure and monitor the efficiency... |
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No. 37 | 30 Jun 2022 |
Improving subnational governments’ resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on lives, the economy, and the public finances worldwide, drawing attention to the need to enhance resilience to future shocks. This paper focuses on subnational governments, given their important and... |
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No. 17 | 08 Apr 2014 |
Greening the Property Tax
This paper reviews the literature and policy discussions about the role of the property tax for land use. Various externalities of the development of land, such as new infrastructure needs, the loss of open space or air pollution due to longer... |
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No. 39 | 30 Aug 2022 |
Funding the future
Government revenues may be affected by economic growth and changes in demographics over time. The effect of economic growth can be captured by long-run buoyancy – responsiveness of government revenues to GDP growth – while the demographic effect can... |
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No. 34 | 25 Mar 2021 |
Funding and financing of local government public investment
The bulk of government investment is done at the local level in OECD countries, representing on average 41% of total public investment. Most studies on subnational government debt focus on the regional or state level, and very few studies analyse... |
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No. 45 | 05 Jul 2023 |
From local to national: Delivering and financing effective long-term care
This study provides an in-depth examination of the fiscal and governance decentralisation of long-term care (LTC) across OECD countries, offering projections of future fiscal burdens of LTC spending across levels of government. With rapid population... |
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No. 35 | 25 Mar 2021 |
Fiscal rules for subnational governments
This paper describes and analyses the fiscal rules for subnational governments (SNGs) in OECD countries immediately prior to the COVID-19 crisis. It is based on information from the 2019 survey of fiscal rules for SNGs by the OECD Network on Fiscal... |
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No. 01 | 26 Sept 2018 |
Fiscal rules for sub-central governments
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently.... |
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No. 12 | 05 Mar 2010 |
Fiscal Policy Across Levels of Government in Times of Crisis
The world is recovering from the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. The recovery will probably be shallow and government deficits could remain very large over the next few years in a number of countries. The crisis has a... |
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No. 4 | 05 Sept 2007 |
Fiscal Equalisation in OECD Countries
Fiscal equalisation is a transfer of fiscal resources across jurisdictions with the aim of offsetting differences in revenue raising capacity or public service cost. Its principal objective is to allow sub-central governments to provide their... |
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No. 2 | 11 Sept 2006 |
Fiscal Autonomy of Sub-Central Governments
State and local governments in OECD countries have access to a variety of fiscal resources. Discretion over these resources varies considerably, and so does sub-central governments’ power to shape public service delivery. The design of fiscal... |
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No. 10 | 17 Jun 2009 |
Finding the Dividing Line Between Tax Sharing and Grants
Tax sharing and intergovernmental grants are two sub-central funding arrangements that are often difficult to disentangle. The dividing line is not drawn uniformly across OECD countries or across time, and rules established in National Accounts,... |
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No. 33 | 01 Feb 2021 |
Federalism and public health decentralisation in the time of COVID-19
The Coronavirus pandemic has put extreme pressure on public health services, often delivered at the local and regional levels of government. The paper focuses on how countries made changes to the configuration of federalism during the first wave of... |
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No. 11 | 12 Jan 2010 |
Explaining the Sub-National Tax-Grants Balance in OECD Countries
Normative principles provide a relatively clear set of rules for the balance between grants and taxes (box 1 reviews the normative theory), but in practice a variety of types of tax-grant systems are observed in OECD countries, which do not all... |
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No. 36 | 06 Apr 2021 |
Evaluating fiscal equalisation
Fiscal equalisation refers to the transfer of financial resources to and between subnational governments with the aim of mitigating regional differences in fiscal capacity and expenditure needs. However, the determination of fiscal capacity and... |
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No. 31 | 20 Apr 2020 |
Digitalisation challenges and opportunities for subnational governments
The world economy and societies are going through a digital transformation that goes well beyond computerisation and use of information and telecommunications technologies. This transformation is creating opportunities and challenges for all levels... |
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No. 21 | 27 Feb 2018 |
Decentralisation in a Globalised World
Globalisation accompanied by the growing importance of information technology and knowledge-based production pose challenging problems for federations. We summarise the difficulties that traditional decentralised federations face in addressing... |
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No. 28 | 18 Apr 2019 |
Decentralisation and performance measurement systems in health care
Based on an OECD survey, this paper presents quantitative and qualitative data on the decentralisation of health systems, focusing on how they vary according to different institutional characteristics and what types of performance measurement systems... |
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No. 32 | 25 May 2020 |
Decentralisation and inter-governmental relations in the housing sector
Based on a survey, this paper presents new data on the decentralisation of the housing system and co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government, focusing on the provision of social housing. Decision-making in social housing tends to be more... |
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No. 16 | 03 Jun 2013 |
Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 3: Decentralisation, Infrastructure Investment and Educational Performance
Theories of fiscal competition between jurisdictions suggest that investment in productive relative to consumptive spending is higher in a decentralised setting, and that efficiency of the public sector is also higher. This paper empirically analyses... |
OECD Working Papers on Fiscal Federalism
This series covers issues related to intergovernmental fiscal relations and local/regional public finance, such as: tax and spending assignment across government levels; intergovernmental grants; fiscal equalization; local and regional public service efficiency; inter-jurisdictional tax competition; and macroeconomic issues such as intergovernmental fiscal management and sub-central fiscal rules. Many of these working papers are outputs of the OECD Network on Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government. Related working papers on fiscal federalism issues are also published in other OECD working paper series on tax policy, economics, public governance and regional development. An integrated list of key papers produced by the Fiscal Network can be found at http://oe.cd/fiscalnetwork.
(Note: numbers 1, 6 and 8 are available in the OECD Economics Department Working Papers, as numbers 465, 626 and 705.)
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Improving the Performance of Sub-national Governments through Benchmarking and Performance Reporting
Leah Phillips
27 Feb 2018
Performance systems are one tool available to central governments to improve the performance of sub-national service delivery. This paper provides a preliminary review of suitable metrics and mechanisms to reliably measure and monitor the efficiency...
Improving subnational governments’ resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
Luiz de Mello and Teresa Ter-Minassian
30 Jun 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on lives, the economy, and the public finances worldwide, drawing attention to the need to enhance resilience to future shocks. This paper focuses on subnational governments, given their important and...
Greening the Property Tax
Nicola Brandt
08 Apr 2014
This paper reviews the literature and policy discussions about the role of the property tax for land use. Various externalities of the development of land, such as new infrastructure needs, the loss of open space or air pollution due to longer...
Funding the future
Sean Dougherty, Pietrangelo de Biase and Luca Lorenzoni
30 Aug 2022
Government revenues may be affected by economic growth and changes in demographics over time. The effect of economic growth can be captured by long-run buoyancy – responsiveness of government revenues to GDP growth – while the demographic effect can...
Funding and financing of local government public investment
Camila Vammalle and Indre Bambalaite
25 Mar 2021
The bulk of government investment is done at the local level in OECD countries, representing on average 41% of total public investment. Most studies on subnational government debt focus on the regional or state level, and very few studies analyse...
From local to national: Delivering and financing effective long-term care
Pietrangelo de Biase and Sean Dougherty
05 Jul 2023
This study provides an in-depth examination of the fiscal and governance decentralisation of long-term care (LTC) across OECD countries, offering projections of future fiscal burdens of LTC spending across levels of government. With rapid population...
Fiscal rules for subnational governments
Camila Vammalle and Indre Bambalaite
25 Mar 2021
This paper describes and analyses the fiscal rules for subnational governments (SNGs) in OECD countries immediately prior to the COVID-19 crisis. It is based on information from the 2019 survey of fiscal rules for SNGs by the OECD Network on Fiscal...
Fiscal rules for sub-central governments
Douglas Sutherland, Robert Price and Isabelle Joumard
26 Sept 2018
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently....
Fiscal Policy Across Levels of Government in Times of Crisis
Hansjörg Blöchliger, Monica Brezzi, Claire Charbit, Mauro Migotto, José Maria Pinero Campos and Camila Vammalle
05 Mar 2010
The world is recovering from the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. The recovery will probably be shallow and government deficits could remain very large over the next few years in a number of countries. The crisis has a...
Fiscal Equalisation in OECD Countries
Hansjörg Blöchliger, Olaf Merk, Claire Charbit and Lee Mizell
05 Sept 2007
Fiscal equalisation is a transfer of fiscal resources across jurisdictions with the aim of offsetting differences in revenue raising capacity or public service cost. Its principal objective is to allow sub-central governments to provide their...
Fiscal Autonomy of Sub-Central Governments
Hansjörg Blöchliger and David King
11 Sept 2006
State and local governments in OECD countries have access to a variety of fiscal resources. Discretion over these resources varies considerably, and so does sub-central governments’ power to shape public service delivery. The design of fiscal...
Finding the Dividing Line Between Tax Sharing and Grants
Hansjörg Blöchliger and Oliver Petzold
17 Jun 2009
Tax sharing and intergovernmental grants are two sub-central funding arrangements that are often difficult to disentangle. The dividing line is not drawn uniformly across OECD countries or across time, and rules established in National Accounts,...
Federalism and public health decentralisation in the time of COVID-19
Pietrangelo de Biase and Sean Dougherty
01 Feb 2021
The Coronavirus pandemic has put extreme pressure on public health services, often delivered at the local and regional levels of government. The paper focuses on how countries made changes to the configuration of federalism during the first wave of...
Explaining the Sub-National Tax-Grants Balance in OECD Countries
Claire Charbit
12 Jan 2010
Normative principles provide a relatively clear set of rules for the balance between grants and taxes (box 1 reviews the normative theory), but in practice a variety of types of tax-grant systems are observed in OECD countries, which do not all...
Evaluating fiscal equalisation
Sean Dougherty and Kass Forman
06 Apr 2021
Fiscal equalisation refers to the transfer of financial resources to and between subnational governments with the aim of mitigating regional differences in fiscal capacity and expenditure needs. However, the determination of fiscal capacity and...
Digitalisation challenges and opportunities for subnational governments
Luiz de Mello and Teresa Ter-Minassian
20 Apr 2020
The world economy and societies are going through a digital transformation that goes well beyond computerisation and use of information and telecommunications technologies. This transformation is creating opportunities and challenges for all levels...
Decentralisation in a Globalised World
Robin Boadway and Sean Dougherty
27 Feb 2018
Globalisation accompanied by the growing importance of information technology and knowledge-based production pose challenging problems for federations. We summarise the difficulties that traditional decentralised federations face in addressing...
Decentralisation and performance measurement systems in health care
Ivor Beazley, Sean Dougherty, Chris James, Caroline Penn and Leah Phillips
18 Apr 2019
Based on an OECD survey, this paper presents quantitative and qualitative data on the decentralisation of health systems, focusing on how they vary according to different institutional characteristics and what types of performance measurement systems...
Decentralisation and inter-governmental relations in the housing sector
Leah Phillips
25 May 2020
Based on a survey, this paper presents new data on the decentralisation of the housing system and co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government, focusing on the provision of social housing. Decision-making in social housing tends to be more...
Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 3: Decentralisation, Infrastructure Investment and Educational Performance
Kaja Fredriksen
03 Jun 2013
Theories of fiscal competition between jurisdictions suggest that investment in productive relative to consumptive spending is higher in a decentralised setting, and that efficiency of the public sector is also higher. This paper empirically analyses...