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Fiscal Federalism in Western European and Other Countries: Centralisation or Decentralisation? What Is Better for Economic Growth? Are there Implications for Ukraine?

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With the adoption of the budget for the year 2000 Ukraine introduced a possibly far reaching but relatively little noticed and little discussed structural change with respect to fiscal federalism:

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Thießen, U. (2001). Fiscal Federalism in Western European and Other Countries: Centralisation or Decentralisation? What Is Better for Economic Growth? Are there Implications for Ukraine?. In: Hoffmann, L., Möllers, F. (eds) Ukraine on the Road to Europe. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57598-3_18

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