R. J. Bennett

Central Grants to Local Governments

The Political and Economic Impact of the Rate Support Grant in England and Wales

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book has two main aims: it seeks to relate central grants to the overall structure of taxes and expenditures of the economy, and it draws together a major set of empirical evidence on one major grant programme.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780521112697
• ISBN-10: 0521112699
• Artikelnr.: 26056807

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Central grants to local governments
Part I. Central Grants: Theory and Practice: 2. Categories of central grants
3. The evolution of central grants and local finances in Britain
4. The Rate Support Grant
5. The distribution of the RSG since 1981
Part II. Distributional Effects of British Local Finance: 6. Local expenditure need
7. Local taxes and expenditures
8. The distribution of the Rate Support Grant
9. Modelling expenditure and grants
Part III. Towards a More Rational Procedure: 10. An appraisal of alternatives
11. An alternative structure for central-local relations
12. The British experience of central grants - a way forward?
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.