0000060242 00000 n 0000001791 00000 n In some transition economies, such as China and Russia, recent reforms are featured by delegating more spending responsibilities to local governments than revenue responsibilities. 1 (Feb., 1986), pp. 0000058528 00000 n Evaluating the Hypothesis of Aid Fungibility: A Focus on Human Development in Nigeria Johnbosco Chukwuma Ozigbu* Ph.D Candidate Rivers State University, P.M.B. 0000041359 00000 n Intergovernmental grants are payments from one level of government to another, such as from the federal government to a state government, or from a city to a school district. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: 0000050661 00000 n This is due to a more appropriate specification of the unconditional aid variable.Since scans are not currently available to screen readers, please Read Online (Free) relies on page scans, which are not currently available to screen readers.
The recent literature on the role of intergovernmental grants in local public finance emphasizes the importance of robust empirical strategies to determine the causal relationship between one specific type of transfer and local public expenditures and taxes (Dahlberg et al., 2008, Litschig and Morrison, 2013, Lundqvist, 2013, Lundqvist et al, 2013).
intergovernmental grants. All Rights Reserved. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. 0000052503 00000 n Evaluating the Hypothesis of Aid Fungibility: A Focus on Human Development in Nigeria The thrust of this paper is the empirical investigation of the aid fungibility hypothesis with a focus on the effectiveness of net ODA received, grants and technical cooperation grants in driving the pace of human development. %%EOF Taxonomy of grants. 0000052194 00000 n
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AN OVERVIEW OF THE FUNGIBILITY MODEL As noted in the introduction, the fungibility model assumes that a categorical grant recipient's effective postgrant budget constraint is unknown a priori and must therefore be estimated. 0000072893 00000 n 0000057989 00000 n intergovernmental grants. 0000003807 00000 n issues are available in JSTOR shortly after publication.In order to preview this item and view access options please enable javascript.Check to see if your institution has access to this content.To support researchers during this challenging time in which many are unable to get to physical libraries, we have expanded our free read-online access to 100 articles per month through December 31, 2020.©2000-2020 ITHAKA. 0000002093 00000 n
Before discussing what the theory of fiscal federalism implies for design of intergovernmental grants, it is useful to define the types of grants we analyze and to state explicitly the fundamental problem of fungibility that is at the heart of the theory and practice of grant design. 0000001871 00000 n Thus the … You can help correct errors and omissions. 43, issue 3, 440-44 . 0000040832 00000 n endstream endobj 284 0 obj <>/Metadata 35 0 R/PageLayout/OneColumn/Pages 279 0 R/StructTreeRoot 56 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 285 0 obj <>/Font<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Type/Page>> endobj 286 0 obj <>stream 0000040376 00000 n %PDF-1.4 %���� 0000062796 00000 n McGuire (1982) tested the fungibility hypothesis by modeling the effect of US aid and Israel's heightened security requirements on Israeli expenditures. 0000026239 00000 n
The concept of fiscal sustainability has become increasingly used over the last 20 years.
Additionally, and importantly, the results provide very little evidence in support of the so-called "flypaper effect" of unconditional grants. trailer You have javascript disabled. 0000062722 00000 n 0000004301 00000 n a0�����8�E�ΗA}���p�7���z���C�VOO��0�gB���5��DV� ����L]\$�{t��=fPG���:!��2%�#ë�D�Z The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. Intergovernmental Transfers/Grants Design. Vol.