OECD territorial reviews Switzerland.

Foreword --
Acknowledgments --
Table of Contents --
Assessment and Recommendations --
Chapter 1. Territorial Trends and Disparities --
Territorial fragmentation --
Main territorial divides --
Toward functional areas --
Territorial disparities --
Value added --
Border regions --
Unemployment --
Household income --
Tax burden --
Disparities in an international context --
Internal migration --
Table 1.5. Migration balance at grande région level, 1965-1995 --
Advantages and challenges faced by regions --
Geographical features --
Demographic structure and geographical distribution of population --
Industrial structure --
Territorial dynamics in the future --
Conclusions --
Notes --
Chapter 2. Fiscal Federalism and Financial Equalisation --
Resource and responsibility division --
Institutional background --
Division of responsibilities --
Distribution of taxes --
Local debt --
Fiscal competition between subnational governments --
Theoretical considerations --
The Swiss case --
Financial equalisation --
Fiscal gap and intergovernmental transfers --
Earmarking and the agency role of cantons --
Fiscal capacity equalisation --
Evaluation --
The \"New Financial Equalisation\" proposal --
Overview --
Some problems --
Fiscal equalisation systems in international comparison --
Contracts between the federation and cantons --
Programme contracts in regional public transport --
Programme contracts in forest management --
Evaluation --
Functional regions and horizontal collaboration --
Areas of horizontal co-operation and forms of collaboration --
Scope and limits to horizontal co-operation --
The role of the federal government --
Jurisdictional mergers and amalgamations --
Recent and current mergers and merger proposals --
Scope and limits of jurisdictional mergers --
Cross-border collaboration --
The Regio Insubrica Association --
Difficulties encountered by CBC initiatives --
Conclusions --
Notes --
Chapter 3. Strategies and Policies for Territorial Development --
Spatial planning and territorial strategy --
Overview --
Spatial planning approaches in other countries --
Swiss spatial planning and land use --
Spatial planning for a new territorial approach --
Regional policy --
Overview --
Mountain regions --
Reorientation of regional policy --
Regional policy in other OECD countries --
Territorial effects of sectoral policies --
Overview --
Physical effects of sectoral policy --
Disparity reducing effects of sectoral policies --
Territorial advantages and sustainable development --
Territorial effects of regulatory reform --
Elements of territorial policy reform --
Foster efficient land use --
Redefine territorial coverage and tools of regional policy --
Put more emphasis on sustainable development in rural areas --
Introduce minimal standards for public services --
Notes --
Chapter 4. Metropolitan Areas --
Introduction --
Functional separation and social segregation in metropolitan areas --
Growth and suburbanisation --
Decentralisation and urban governance --
Metropolitan public finances --
Figure 4.3. Evolution of revenues and expenditures in selected central cities, 1985-1995 --
Tax base erosion --
Public service cost --
Metropolitan.