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Budget Rules, Fiscal Consolidation and Government Spending:Implications for Federal Transfers
Pinaki, Chakraborty
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, Centre for Development Studies –JNU, Trivandrum, Kerala
July 2008
Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30938/
MPRA Paper No. 30938, posted 17 May 2011 09:17 UTC
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