The Right to Secession: The Possibility of its Application with Regard to the Current Fiscal Set up in Ethiopia
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2015
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Addis Ababa University
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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.
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fiscal federalism,retain and manage revenue