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Program Overview |
Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| V. Working Group on Public Sector Finance and Accounting |
| Session I: Fiscal Autonomy of Local Government and Regional Development |
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Conference hall D |
| Related to |
V. Working Group on Public Sector Finance and Accounting |
| WG Programme Coordinators: |
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Zeljko Sevic, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Lucie Sedmihradska, University of Economics of Prague, Prague , Czech Republic
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The Working Group in the last five years have touched a number of issues facing, primarily sub-national governments in transitional countries. However, the transition has not had the same pace in all the regions of Central and Eastern Europe and fSU. The countries of Central Europe have had a somewhat accelerated transition and are often referred to as advanced transitional economies, whilst countries of the Western Balkans have had delayed transition and some of the Central Asian republics even after more than 17 years of transition, are at the very beginning of that very process. Therefore, issues that may have faced all the countries in the early 1990s are not shared by all the transitional countries any more. Central European countries have largely decentralised, both politically and financially (fiscally), whilst in some others (more East) there are still debates going on the benefits (and costs) of decentralisation. In order to facilitate research on the topics that may be country specific and to attract necessary research attention to all the important issues, this year the Working Group has solicited research on a particular burning issue that, in opinion of a research, is characteristic for a particular transitional countries. Consequently, the differences in the stage of transition are reflected upon the issues that have been raised and researched. This should enable the group to develop a firm agenda of further research topics to be explore in the years to come.  |
Speakers:
Zeljko Sevic, WG co-ordinator, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
Co-author(s): Sedmihradska Lucie
Topic: The burning issue in local government finance in a ‘named’ country
Papers:
Paper: “State administration” vs. self-government in the Slovak and Czech Republics
Author(s):
Phillip Bryson, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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Paper: Decentralization and local fiscal autonomy in Ukraine: What’s on the agenda?
Author(s):
Sergii Slukhai, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Paper: Tax sharing mechanism and municipal management in the Czech Republic
Author(s):
Lucie Sedmihradska, University of Economics of Prague, Prague , Czech Republic
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Paper: Tax sharing mechanism and municipal management in the Czech Republic
Author(s):
Lucie Sedmihradska, University of Economics of Prague, Prague , Czech Republic
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Paper: Tax policy and shadow economy in Georgia
Author(s):
Tengiz Gvelesiani, European Commission Food Security Program, Tbilisi, Georgia
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