M. Govinda Rao
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
63 Papers
456 Citations
M. Govinda Rao is an academic researcher from National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. The author has contributed to research in topics: Federalism & Fiscal federalism. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 51 publications. Previous affiliations of M. Govinda Rao include Australian National University & Georgia State University.
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Papers
•Posted Content
Trends and Issues in Tax Policy and Reform in India
M. Govinda Rao,R. Kavita Rao +1 more
TL;DR: The Indian tax reform experience can provide useful lessons for many countries due to the largeness of the country with multilevel fiscal framework, uniqueness of the reform experience and difficulties in calibrating reforms due to institutional constraints.
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Fiscal decentralization in Indian federalism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of decentralization in a three-tier federal framework in India and found that the transfer system has equalizing impact, but it has disincentives for fiscal management.
•Journal Article
A rational taxation system of bidis and cigarettes to reduce smoking deaths in India
Prabhat Jha,Emmanuel Guindon,Emmanuel Guindon,Emmanuel Guindon,Renu Ann Joseph,Arindam Nandi,Rijo M. John,Rijo M. John,Kavita Rao,Frank J. Chaloupka,Jagdish Kaur,Prakash C. Gupta,M. Govinda Rao +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide specific recommendations to raise tobacco taxes and to adopt a simpler and more efficient tax administration that would curb smoking in India, and they estimate that raising the tax as a percentage of retail price from 7% to 33% for bidis and from 43% to 58% for cigarettes would conservatively lead to about 14 million smokers quitting and 27 million children never starting, thereby saving some 69 million years of healthy life over the next 40 years.
Urban Governance and Finance in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify some key reforms required to realize both the constitutional intent to encourage citizen participation in urban governance and the economic and politically desirable goal of ensuring greater accountability of urban governments.