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Synopsis This book explores the existing pattern of allocation of financial resources between the union of India and its constituent units that have generated imbalances between the revenue capacities and the needs of the states much to the disadvantage of the backward states of India. In this particular context, the book makes a successful attempt at enquiring into the nature, causes and dimensions of such maladjustments and imbalances, taking north-eastern region as a whole. The book is considered to be unique in it as no similar work is available on this particular aspect of the problem for North-east India. Written in a simple language, fiscal policies in North-east India is divided in to six chapters. The general outline of the book includes an in depth analysis of the problems and prospects of financial resources of the North-eastern states, an analysis of public expenditure growth, where an attempt is made to asses the overall utilization pattern of the states' financial resources, an analysis of efficiency of North-eastern states' tax system and finally suggests some policy measures to over come inherent fiscal adversaries that these states experience. The present book will prove to be of immense value to the post-graduate students, research scholars, fiscal analysts, planners, policy makers, academicians and the taxation theorists.