Is fiscal federalism the answer?

By Chan Huan Chiang

December 2009 UTTER ECONOMICS
main image
Advertisement
Localizing parliamentary debate may be a better solution. By such decentralization, Malaysian aspirations will be better tied to local needs. Transferring the task of resource allocation to the widely dispersed electorate may not be as difficult as we think.THE complaint that state governments are given insufficient funds to operate at the local level is as old as the nation’s half-century history.Malaysia is a federation of states and problems arising from fiscal federalism cannot be avoided. Fiscal federalism involves how best...

Subscribe to our e-archive to read our older articles.

PM
Chan Huan Chiang

is a senior research fellow at the Penang Institute.


`