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Financing Public Services in the New South Africa. (International Horizons).(adapted from article in)(La Follette Policy Report)

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| December 01, 2001 | Reschovsky, Andrew; Chernick, Howard | COPYRIGHT 2001 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Editor's note: This article was adapted with permission of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was published originally in the La Follette Policy Report, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring-Summer 2001.

Around the world, the move from authoritarian regimes to democratically elected governments has often been accompanied by a movement away from fiscally centralized government to decentralized fiscal systems. Subnational governments have been given a substantial increase in responsibility for the provision of public services and the raising of revenues. This is certainly true in South Africa where, with the election of Nelson Mandela as ...

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