PUBLICATIONS
ICePP has published more than 50 monographs and edited volumes. Many stem from our real-world technical assistance projects, like the USAID Fiscal Reform Project in the Russian Federation from 1997–2000 or the World Bank Tax Policy Review Project in Pakistan during 2008–09. Some books are broad-based overviews, others offer comparative landscapes, and still others address important current discussion in topics like fiscal decentralization, infrastructure financing, and social welfare.
Featured Book: Local Accountability and National Coordination in Fiscal Federalism: A Fine Balance
Authors: Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Raúl A. Ponce Rodríguez
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019
Summary: The book emphasizes the importance of striking a ”fine balance” between the accountability benefits delivered by empowered local governments and the national coordination necessary for good policy outcomes. Such a balance can be achieved, they contend, when integrated party structures compensate for the potential downsides of a decentralized state. The book formalizes this argument for a variety of electoral democracies and, using new data on subnational political institutions, tests it with models of education, health, and infrastructure service delivery in 135 countries across 30 years. It also presents comparative case studies of Senegal and Nigeria.
“This volume by leading scholars, Hankla, Martinez-Vazquez and Ponce Rodríguez, makes a path breaking contribution in advancing our knowledge on decentralized governance by providing a comprehensive theoretical and empirical framework on the impact of political institutions on the provision of local public goods.” –Anwar Shah, Brookings Institute, The World Bank, US and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
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Coercion & Social Welfare in Contemporary Public Finance (Cambridge University Press) |
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Decentralization and Infrastructure (Routledge Press) |
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Taxation and Development: The Weakest Link? (Edward Elgar Press) |
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The Role of Taxation in Pakistan’s Revival (Oxford University Press-Pakistan)Jorge Martinez-Vazquez & Musharraf Cyan |
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Fiscal Decentralization in Ukraine: Accomplishments and Challenges in the Transition Nova Science Publishers, 2011) Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Wayne Thirsk |
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The Elgar Guide to Tax Systems(Edward Elgar 2011) Edited by Emilio Albi and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez |
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Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on the Property Tax |
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Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries: Global Perspectives on the Obstacles to Political and Economic Devolution |
| State and Local Tax Policy: Out of the Box? | |
| Understanding Sub-National Government Proliferation in Indonesia | |
| Reforming Regional Tax Assignments in Spain | |
| Decentralization Policies in Asian Countries | |
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Making the Property Tax Work: Experiences in Developing and Transitional Countries |
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Developing Alternative Frameworks for Exploring Tax Compliance |
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Tax Reform in Russia |
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Public Policy for Regional Development |
| The Structure of PRI Finances in West Bengal | |
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Fighting Corruption in the Public Sector |
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Fiscal Reform in Spain |
| Jamaica’s Tax Reform | |
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Tax Reform and Economic Development: The Jamaican Case(The Planning Institute of Jamaica, 2006) Roy Bahl and Sally Wallace |
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Local Government Finance Reform in Developing Countries |
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Reforming Regional-Local Fiscal Relations in Russia(The World Bank, 2006) Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Andrey Timofeev, and Jameson Boex |
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The Challenges in the Design of Fiscal Equalization and Intergovernmental Transfers |
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The Challenges of Tax Reform in the Global Economy |
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Taxing the Hard-to-Tax: Lessons from Theory and Practice(Emerald, 2007) James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Sally Wallace |
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Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and the Rebuilding of Indonesia: The ‘Big Bang’ Program and its Economic Consequences |
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Public Finance in Developing and Transition Countries |
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Restructuring Local Government Finance in Developing Countries: Lessons from South Africa |
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the Transition: Czech Republic |
| Methods and Modeling Tools in Tax Administration | |
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Russia’s Transition to a New Federalism |
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Fiscal Policy in China |
| Fiscal Transition in Kazakhstan | |
| Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Kazakstan | |
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The Guatemalan Tax Reform |
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Taxation and Economic Development: A Blueprint for Tax Reform in Ohio |
| Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries | |
| Economic Growth and Fiscal Planning: New York in the 1990s | |
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The Jamaican Tax Reform |
| Public Finances During the Korean Modernization Process | |
| Financing State and Local Government in the 1980s | |
| Local Government Finance in the Third World: A Case Study of the Philippines | |
| Urban Government Finance: Emerging Trends | |
| The Taxation of Urban Property in Less Developed Countries | |
| The Fiscal Outlook for Cities: Implications of a National Urban Policy | |
| State and Local Government: The Political Economy of Reform | |
| Fiscal Centralization and Tax Burdens: State and Regional Financing of City Services | |
| A Program for Income Tax Reform |