01199pab a2200169 454500 180718b2007 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Mahadevia, Darshini Urban infrastructure financing and delivery in China 2007 p.964-72. 17 Mar A high volume of infrastructure investment in the cities of China is not just an outcome of high economic growth rates maintained by the country over a long period of time, but largely because of her administrative structure wherein large cities have powers to tax more than others and collect taxes from larger areas, as also administrative and fiscal decentralisation and devolution of urban functions to specifically created bodies/agencies that can recover costs to some extent. Added to this are the ingenious methods of extra-budgetary and off-budgetary resource collection by local authorities, and passing down of welfare functions to lower levels of administration. However, all these have resulted in high lev els of inter-city and intra-city inequalities. - Reproduced. Urban development Economic and Political Weekly N 73493 73493 73493 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 42, Issue no: 11 AR73953 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR