IMF Working Papers

Measuring the Role of Subnational Governments

By Jonathan Levin

January 1, 1991

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Jonathan Levin. Measuring the Role of Subnational Governments, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

To measure subnational governments, only external money flows are counted, excluding intra-level transactions in measuring a level of government and all intergovernmental transactions in measuring general government. Control, finance, and administration should be distinguished in measuring centralization and each level’s share of general government, administered expenditures being net of grants given to other governments and financed expenditures net of grants received. Disparate decentralization of finance, control, and administration brings vertical imbalance, measured by the portion of a government’s expenditures not covered by its own resources and by the ratio of intergovernmental grants to total government expenditures.

Subject: Economic and financial statistics, Expenditure, General government spending, Government finance statistics, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration, Total expenditures

Keywords: Africa, General government spending, General govt, Government, Government activity, Government finance statistics, Government operation, Grantor government, Majority government ownership, State govt, State govt., Supranational authorities, Total expenditures, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    20

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/008

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0081991

  • ISBN:

    9781451842456

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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