The purpose of this paper is to describe Bosnia's arrangements in fiscal federalism, outline the unique challenges that the Dayton system proposed, and draw some lessons for the design of fiscal federal systems in ethnically diverse economies.
This paper was prepared by the Urban Institute for USAID. It was published in the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Eastern Europe Sourcebook on CD-ROM (Please contact: bwalter@usaid.gov) or at http://www.urban.org/centers/iac/localgov/index.html. Other papers from this book are available in this library.