The Measurement of Interregional Redistribution  

Oleh:

Ruggeri, G.C. ; Yu, Weiqiu

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Finance Review vol. 31 no. 4 (Jul. 2003), page 392-412.
Topik: Interregional redistribution; maximum redistribution; federal revenue and expenditures; relative share index; regional income disparities; federal fiscal balances
Fulltext: 392PFR314.pdf (99.3KB)

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This study develops local and global indices to measure interregional redistribution. The local indices compare federal revenues and expenditures assigned to various regions with the pattern of income disparities among regions. They are developed by relating these comparisons under a given regional distribution of federal fiscal activity to three special cases under known degrees of redistribution: no redistribution, the degree of redistribution that would be delivered solely through equal per capita federal spending in each region, and the maximum degree of redistribution that would equalize per capita income in all regions. Global indices are then developed as weighted averages of the local indices. Results show that the federal fiscal system in 1996 delivered a degree of interregional redistribution 1.8 times what would have been generated under equal per capita federal expenditures in each region and nearly half of the maximum redistribution that could have been delivered by the federal fisc.

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