From local to national: Delivering and financing effective long-term care
This study provides an in-depth examination of the fiscal and governance decentralisation of long-term care (LTC) across OECD countries, offering projections of future fiscal burdens of LTC spending across levels of government. With rapid population...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismThe multi-level fiscal governance of ecological transition
This paper investigates the role of fiscal federalism in driving ecological transition, a key challenge in the United Nations’Sustainable Development Goals agenda. The ecological transition seeks a sustainable society that prioritises naturalresource...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismDecarbonisation and intergovernmental fiscal relations
This paper explores the nexus between decarbonisation and intergovernmental fiscal relations, focusing on related challenges and reform options. It highlights the significant role of subnational governments in tackling climate change. Subnational and...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismThe intergovernmental fiscal outlook and the implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine, high energy prices and inflation
Less than two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression against Ukraine has triggered the biggest military confrontation in Europe since World War II. Many OECD countries have...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismThe past and future of subnational fiscal rules
Fiscal rules are increasingly used at state and local levels to promote fiscal sustainability in OECD countries. Following the Global Financial Crisis, multiple reforms to fiscal rule frameworks were made so that governments could better tackle...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismCould insurance provide an alternative to fiscal support in crisis response?
The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant economic disruptions and revenue losses for business impacted by workplace closure measures aimed at restraining the spread of the virus. Governments provided extensive monetary and fiscal support to address...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismFunding the future
Government revenues may be affected by economic growth and changes in demographics over time. The effect of economic growth can be captured by long-run buoyancy – responsiveness of government revenues to GDP growth – while the demographic effect can...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismAgeing and the long-run fiscal sustainability of health care across levels of government
OECD economies are undergoing a seemingly inevitable process of population ageing that has been changing income and consumption patterns. Notably, the demand for health services is expected to increase, while labour forces are projected to shrink....
OECD > Fiscal FederalismImproving subnational governments’ resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on lives, the economy, and the public finances worldwide, drawing attention to the need to enhance resilience to future shocks. This paper focuses on subnational governments, given their important and...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismEvaluating fiscal equalisation
Fiscal equalisation refers to the transfer of financial resources to and between subnational governments with the aim of mitigating regional differences in fiscal capacity and expenditure needs. However, the determination of fiscal capacity and...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismFiscal rules for subnational governments
This paper describes and analyses the fiscal rules for subnational governments (SNGs) in OECD countries immediately prior to the COVID-19 crisis. It is based on information from the 2019 survey of fiscal rules for SNGs by the OECD Network on Fiscal...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismFunding and financing of local government public investment
The bulk of government investment is done at the local level in OECD countries, representing on average 41% of total public investment. Most studies on subnational government debt focus on the regional or state level, and very few studies analyse...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismFederalism and public health decentralisation in the time of COVID-19
The Coronavirus pandemic has put extreme pressure on public health services, often delivered at the local and regional levels of government. The paper focuses on how countries made changes to the configuration of federalism during the first wave of...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismDecentralisation and inter-governmental relations in the housing sector
Based on a survey, this paper presents new data on the decentralisation of the housing system and co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government, focusing on the provision of social housing. Decision-making in social housing tends to be more...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismDigitalisation challenges and opportunities for subnational governments
The world economy and societies are going through a digital transformation that goes well beyond computerisation and use of information and telecommunications technologies. This transformation is creating opportunities and challenges for all levels...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismPopulation ageing and sub-central governments
The population in OECD countries is ageing rapidly, which will have significant macroeconomic impacts, including on public expenditure and tax revenues. This paper analyses the consequences of population ageing at the sub-central government (SCG)...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismTwenty years of tax autonomy across levels of government
The Network on Fiscal Relations has been assessing the degree of sub-central government tax autonomy in OECD countries for almost two decades. This paper provides an in-depth description of the methodology used to characterise tax autonomy. After...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismDecentralisation and performance measurement systems in health care
Based on an OECD survey, this paper presents quantitative and qualitative data on the decentralisation of health systems, focusing on how they vary according to different institutional characteristics and what types of performance measurement systems...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismThe impact of decentralisation on the performance of health care systems
This paper examines the relationship between the degree of administrative decentralisation across levels of government in health care decision-making and health care spending, life expectancy as well as hospital costs. This empirical analysis builds...
OECD > Fiscal FederalismCross-country evidence on the impact of decentralisation and school autonomy on educational performance
How do administrative and fiscal decentralisation relate to education system performance? The question is answered by exploiting a panel with several different measures of fiscal decentralisation: a measure of administrative decentralisation, as well...
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