Fiscal decentralisation and governance in Thailand

This chapter studies expenditure assignment, revenue assignment and the debt of local governments in Thailand. The distribution of local expenditures and revenue among jurisdictions in 2017 are analysed by applying the Gini index and Lorenz curve. The study shows that the governmental functions that...

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