The Effect of Revenue Shares on Local Government Spending: Evidence from Philippine Provinces

• Main Author: Canare, Tristan A
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Revenue shares; intergovernmental fiscal transfers; sub-national government spending; local government finance; The Philippines
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/60; https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217590819500206
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Intergovernmental fiscal transfer (IFT) is one of the several sources of funds of sub-national governments. There are two general types of IFT — conditional and unconditional. In many developing economies including the Philippines, the usual existing IFT is a form of unconditional fiscal transfer ca...