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Issues in Commonwealth–State Funding
Author(s) -
Garnaut Ross,
FitzGerald Vince
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.00245
Subject(s) - commonwealth , transparency (behavior) , equity (law) , simplicity , state (computer science) , economics , political science , public economics , public administration , computer science , law , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics
This article discusses equity, efficiency, and simplicity and transparency issues posed by Australia’s system of Commonwealth grants to the States, a system which applies a very strong form of ‘horizontal fiscal equalisation’.