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Public Finance in Developing and Transition Countries:
A Conference in Honor of Richard Bird
 
April 5-6, 2001
Evergreen Hotel and Resort, Stone Mountain, Georgia
 

Top row: David Wildasin, Milka Casanegra, Michael Keen, Steve Webb, Serdar Yilmaz, Kelly Edmiston, Jim Alm, Jorge Martinez, Charles McLure, Jack Mintz, Bambang Brodjonegoro, David Sjoquist.
Middle row: Govinda Rao, Oliver Oldman , Debbie Wetzel, Francois Vaillancourt, Wayne Thirsk, Sally Wallace, Bob Ebel.
Front row: Christine Wong, Roy Bahl, Peggy Musgrave, Richard Bird, Richard Musgrave, Vito Tanzi, Jamie Boex.

Click on the book cover (left) to purchase the conference proceedings from Edward Elgar Publishing.

The draft conference papers are also available in Adobe PDF format by clicking on the titles below. Please note that all documents are draft versions and should not be cited without the prior written permission of the authors.

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Roy Bahl and Sally Wallace
"The View from Below: Subnational Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Russia, China, and the United States"

Govinda Rao
"Challenges of Fiscal Decentralization in Transitional Economies: An Asian Perspective"

David Wildasin
"Rapid Demographic Change in Developing Countries: Challenges for Federalism and Local Public Finance"

Robert Ebel and Serdar Yilmaz
"Governance, Decentralization, and Democracy"

Jack Mintz
"A Survey on Growth and Taxes"

Michael Keen
"The Value Added Tax in Developing Countries"

Charles McLure
"Taxation of Electronic Commerce in Developing Countries"

Bill Dillinger, Guilermo Perry, and Steve Webb
"Developing Hard Budgets Constraints in Decentralized Democracies of Latin America"

Vito Tanzi
"The Cost of Government and the Misuse of Public Assets"

James Alm and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
"Institutions, Stakeholders, and Tax Evasion in Developing and Transition Countries"

Wayne Thirsk
"The Circular Flow of Debts and Barter in a Transition Economy"

Richard Musgrave
"On Merit Goods"

Sijbren Cnossen
"Taxing Tobacco in the European Union"