01202pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002000040245005100060260000900111300001300120362001100133520084500144650001800989650001501007773003401022180718b2008   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBagchi, Amaresh  aGlobalisation and federalism: uneasy partners?  c2008  ap.41-48.  a20 Sep  aFederalism faces difficult challenges in the era of globalisation, since the latter has generated pressures for reform in economic and political organisations and thereby in inter-governmental relations of all developing countries as well. There are forces in inter-governmental relations pulling in opposite directions, some tending to centralise functions of second tier governments, such as of the states in India, and others moving to decentralise to tiers further down, citing "subsidiarity". Although, globalisation at one level has given some functional autonomy for efficiency gain and competition and to attract private capital, it has restricted the scope for independent sub-state fiscal policy. The biggest challenge for federalism in the coming years would be to respect the plurality of identity of human beings. - Reproduced.  aGlobalization  aFederalism  aEconomic and Political Weekly