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The Distributional Impact of Selected Commonwealth Outlays and Taxes and Alternative Commonwealth Grant Allocation Mechanisms: Comment
Author(s) -
Hancock Jim
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 - 10.1111/1467-8462.00251
Subject(s) - commonwealth , equity (law) , economics , public economics , state (computer science) , political science , law , computer science , algorithm
This article explains why fiscal equalisation is needed to achieve horizontal equity in a federation, why horizontal equity is needed for efficient across–State location choices, and its connection to community preferences.