THE FISCAL SITUATION OF ARGENTINE CITIES

The present article aims to give an account, for the Argentine case, of the current situation and recent evolution of a series of variables relevant for the analysis of the fiscal performance of the municipal level governments. Attention is given to data on issues such as the composition of municipal revenues and expenditures, financial autonomy, financial results, self-financing and local public investment. In turn, given the country's profound territorial heterogeneity, this information is worked for the different regions that compose it and for the different population scales. All this in the understanding that, strengthening the financing of local governments, is key to obtaining a local public supply of goods and services, with a floor of homogeneity in terms of quality, quantity and accessibility, throughout the national territory.