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Vietnam is in the process of fiscal decentralization. The essential institutional framework was established by the 1996 State Budget Law and the 2002 State Budget Law. The 1996 State Budget Law clarified the fiscal alignment between the central and local governments, and, in addition, it attempted to strengthen the fiscal capacity of local governments. The major revisions were made in the 2002 State Budget Law, which was approved in 2002 and took effect in 2004. The 2002 State Budget Law had a significant impact on the fiscal relation between tiers of government at the subnational level. It strengthened the discretion of the provincial government in the fiscal arrangement below the provincial level. Whether the extent of fiscal decentralization below the provincial level will affect development outputs or outcomes is still unclear and is an important question to be examined.
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Kono, H., Uchimura, H. (2012). The Diversity of Fiscal Decentralization Below Provincial Level and Its Relation to Development in Vietnam: Do More Decentralized Provinces Improve Health and Economic Equity?. In: Uchimura, H. (eds) Fiscal Decentralization and Development. IDE-JETRO Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389618_6
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