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Unconditional Grants

Unconditional Grants is a type of intergovernmental fiscal transfer in which a higher-level government provides funds to a lower-level government without earmarking their use for specific programs or purposes, thereby allowing the recipient full discretion to allocate the resources across its expenditure priorities within its legal competencies.

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57

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38

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2017–2026

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Variants

General Purpose Grants

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Publications

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Why conditional aid does not work and what can be done about it?

Jakob Svensson · Journal of Development Economics · 2003 · 345 citations

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Towards a Predictive Theory of Intergovernmental Grants

David F. Bradford, Wallace E. Oates · American Economic Review · 1971 · 206 citations

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A Theory of Government Grants

Albert Breton · The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science · 1965 · 177 citations

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Policy implementation through bargaining: the case of federal grants-in-aid.

Hadyn Ingram · PubMed · 1977 · 139 citations

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Fiscal Illusion and the Grantor Government

Robert R. Logan · Journal of Political Economy · 1986 · 103 citations

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Authors

57

  1. WE
    Wallace E. Oates

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    3 publications · 235 citations

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  2. SW
    Stuart White

    Jesus University, South Korea

    2 publications · 62 citations

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  3. TA
    Tahir Andrabi

    Pomona College, United States

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  4. NS
    Niharika Singh

    Sankara Nethralaya, India

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  5. JD
    Jishnu Das

    World Bank Group, United States

    2 publications · 47 citations

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Institutions

38

  1. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    35 citations

  2. Stockholm University

    Stockholm, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    345 citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  4. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    40 citations

  5. Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  6. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    74 citations

  7. Sikkim Manipal University

    Gangtok, India

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  8. University of Salford

    Salford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

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Venues

  1. American Economic Review

    3 publications · 275 citations

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  2. Southern Economic Journal

    2 publications · 25 citations

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  3. The Review of Economics and Statistics

    2 publications · 110 citations

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  4. International Tax and Public Finance

    2 publications · 49 citations

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  5. Theory and Society

    1 publications · 16 citations

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