The spending power of sub-national decision makers across five policy sectors

The paper develops new measures of spending power and performance across five key sectors of sub-national government service delivery -- education, long-term care, transport services, social housing and health care. The new indicators reveal unique insights about how responsibilities are assigned ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dougherty, Sean
Other Authors: Phillips, Leah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2019
Series:OECD Working Papers on Fiscal Federalism
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The paper develops new measures of spending power and performance across five key sectors of sub-national government service delivery -- education, long-term care, transport services, social housing and health care. The new indicators reveal unique insights about how responsibilities are assigned across levels of government, which enable the analysis of different arrangements on outcomes. Differences in characteristics across sectors and types of countries may have important consequences for intergovernmental fiscal relations
Physical Description:98 p