Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ya. Danilova Author-Email: ydanilova@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Finance Ministry of the Russian Federation Author-Name: Alexey M. Lavrov Author-Email: Aleksei.Lavrov@minfin.ru Author-Workplace-Name: National Research University Higher School of Economics Author-Name: Vladislav V. Onischenko Author-Email: onischenko@ac.gov.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation Title: International Practices in Stimulation of Subnational Authorities in Realization of the Fiscal Reforms in the Public Sector Abstract: The article describes some practices of foreign countries in stimulating of the fiscal reforms realized at the subnational level. The author presents a typology of the performance based grant systems (PBGS) according to the purpose of application. In addition, there are given examples of using different types of PBGS for increasing of the activity effectiveness of the subnational governments both in the developed and developing countries. Moreover, the author defines under which conditions using of this tool gives the best results. Classification-JEL: Keywords: fiscal reforms, subnational governments, grants, the performance based grant systems (PBGS) Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 5-12 Issue: 4 Year: 2015 Month: August File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2015/4/statii/01.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:150401:p:5-12