01099nam a22001337a 4500 533714 533714 260612b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Kundu, Amitabh Verma, Madhu and Bhagwat, Shweta 61216 From implicit goals in transfers to explicit outcomes: Ecology, forests, and fiscal federalism in India Economic & Political Weekly 61(19), May 9, 2026: p.39-42 Ecological fiscal transfers are one of the few scalable instruments to address underinvestment in India’s forests and ecosystems, where ecology expenditures are largely public. Their share in finance commission transfers has risen significantly. Yet, transfers remain untied, dissolving into general revenues with a small and declining share of forestry in state expenditure. Budget tagging, transparency mechanisms, and outcome dashboards are essential for a due share of ecology at the state level.- Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/sixteenth-finance-commission/implicit-goals-transfers-explicit-outcomes.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408893 IIPA IIPA 2026-06-12 61(19), May 9, 2026: p.39-42 AR139186 2026-06-12 AR