Managing Central Local Fiscal Relations in Turkey

Central local fiscal relations encompass several issues: expenditure and tax assignments, fiscal transfers, budget procedures, employment conditions and electoral process. A resilient management of central local fiscal relations is an indispensable component of decentralisation policies. This book contains a collection of articles on fiscal decentralisation and central local fiscal relations in Turkey, intends to contribute to this area of interest. It consists of data-based advanced econometric analyses in the light of international experience. To sum up, this work tries to answer the question, ‘Central-local fiscal relations in Turkey: A way forward?' while incorporating Turkey's last three decades experience.