Publication date

जन, 2009

Details

Report submitted to the Center-State Relations Commission

Authors

M. Govinda Rao

Abstract

The project involves preparing a survey article on fiscal federalism in India and identifying areas of reform. The study highlights the policy and institutional shortcomings in Indian fiscal federalism in terms of the assignment system and intergovernmental transfers. Focus areas include impediments to internal trade and allocative distortions, sources of tax and expenditure inefficiency and multiplicity of transferring agencies, poor structure of incentives, and inability of the transfer system to offset disabilities of poorer states.