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In recent years, the attention paid to municipal governments has increased due to their inability to finance municipal services. Municipalities argue that there is an ever-increasing fiscal imbalance between their revenues and their expenditures and, therefore, that they require more funding from the other orders of government. They also argue that they deserve more funding because they are the engines of economic growth for an economy. Recent empirical evidence by Partridge et al. (2007) validates