Proper relationship between national and subnational governments in a federal system should be a case of give-and-take between the two levels in a context of free negotiation between the two tiers The ...

Richard Nixon in the Oval Office in 1972. He believed in a federal government whose job was to provide financial help to states and localities — and then to get out of the way. (Richard Nixon ...

My recent book Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus argues for what political scientist Lisa Miller, in her review in these pages, dubs “aspirational federalism.” I like and will embrace this label.

On February 1, while presenting the Budget for FY27 in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also tabled the 16th Finance Commission report which determines the tax revenue devolution ...

By Ajit Ranade India’s fiscal federalism runs on a deceptively simple bargain: the Union collects most broad-based taxes, ...

Over the past 30 years since the first People’s Movement, we have seen that things start moving in Nepal when local governments are empowered. Devolution to village and district development councils ...

The 16th Finance Commission prioritizes efficiency over equity, shifting incentives towards economic effort by weighting GSDP share in horizontal distribution. It also discontinues revenue-deficit ...

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