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    The Right to Secession: The Possibility of its Application with Regard to the Current Fiscal Set up in Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015) Addis, Abay; Negussie, Solomon
    One of the most crucial challenges to Ethiopia’s fiscal federalism is the inability of the states to raise, retain and manage revenue. Revenue bases at state level being small and unpredictable and resource problems that most states have create a problem in performance of their expenditure responsibilities. As a result, State and sub national governments are extremely dependent on the federal government’s grant even to cover their budgets. Interestingly, while a lot has been written about Ethiopian fiscal federalism, not much attention is paid to its possible effects on the application of the right to secession. Beginning with an evaluation of the current fiscal set up and the right to secession under the federal constitution, this study examines how the Ethiopian fiscal federalism impacts the possibility of application of the right to secession.