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Re-slicing the pie of patronage: the politics of the internal revenue allotment in the Philippines, 1991-2010

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title Re-slicing the pie of patronage: the politics of the internal revenue allotment in the Philippines, 1991-2010
 
Creator Hutchcroft, Paul D.; Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
 
Subject devolution; fiscal decentralization; revenue sharing; patronage
 
Description Of all the provisions of the 1991 Philippine Local Government Code, none has generated more contention than the internal revenue allotment (IRA)—through which 40 percent of national internal revenues are to be shared with local governments. The stated goal is to enable provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangaysss to assume the responsibilities devolved to them in the code. For all the celebrated talk of promoting local autonomy and instituting fiscal decentralization, however, the IRA is also very much a story about the enhanced access of local politicians to patronage resources. This analysis surveys the political dynamics of the IRA from its inception through the administrations of Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Particular attention is given to three tensions as they have evolved over time: (a) between the national executive and local politicians, (b) between national legislators and local politicians, and (c) among and within categories of local politicians. Classification-JEL: H7
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
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Date 2012-08-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/672
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 49, No 1 (2012): Papers and Proceedings: First PIPER Policy Forum on 20 Years of Fiscal Decentralization in the Philippines; 109-134
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/672/778
 
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