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Intergovernmental transfers from the central level are an important source of revenue for most subnational governments in developing countries. This importance is likely to grow even further taking into account the ongoing decentralization initiatives in Latin America and elsewhere. This paper investigates in a series of regressions whether the transfer mechanisms in place in Ar-
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تاریخ انتشار 1997