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Managing Public Sector Decentralization in Developing Countries: Moving Beyond Conventional RecipesP. Smoke …
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Rethinking Decentralization: Assessing Challenges to a Popular Public Sector ReformP. Smoke …
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Restructuring Local Government Finance in Developing Countries: Lessons from South AfricaExamining cutting-edge issues of international relevance in the ongoing redesign of the South African local government fiscal system, the contributors to this volume analyze the major changes that have taken place since the demise of apartheid. The 1996 …
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Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Relations in Developing Countries: Navigating a Viable Path to ReformThe trend toward greater decentralization of governance activities, now accepted as commonplace in the West, has become a worldwide movement. Today s world demands flexibility, adaptability, and the autonomy to bring those qualities to bear. In this …
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Making Progress in Relating Values, Goals, and Outcomes in the Evaluation of Local Economic Development PolicyLaura Reese and David Fasenfest highlight important conceptual, technical, and procedural issues regarding the relationship between values, goals, and results in the analysis of local economic development. Less insight is provided on how to make progress …
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Designing Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and International Finance Institutions Allocations for Rural DevelopmentSmoke, P. …
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Improving Infrastructure Finance Through Grant-Loan LinkagesIn recent years, developing countries under fiscal pressure have increasing recognized significant weaknesses in their intergovernmental mechanisms for financing local infrastructure. Many countries are in the process of rationalizing poorly coordinated …
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Understanding Decentralization in Asia: As Overview of Key Issues and ChallengesSmoke, P. …
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Local Revenues under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries: Linking Policy Reform, Governance and CapacitySmoke, P. …
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The Evolution of Subnational Planning under Decentralization Reforms in Kenya and Uganda in V. Beard, F. Miraftab and C. Silver (eds) Decentralization and the Planning Process Smoke, P. …
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The Rules of the Intergovernmental Game in East Asia: Comparing Decentralization Frameworks and ProcessesAlthough political forces have largely driven decentralization in East Asia and most countries face similar reform challenges, their decentralization experiences are far from uniform. Countries have adopted different intergovernmental structures, …
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Fiscal Decentralization Policy in Developing Countries: Bridging Theory and RealityIn a critical examination of some of the most topical and challenging issues confronting the public sector in developing counties in an era of globalization, the contributors to this book examine the potential and limits of managerial, fiscal and …
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Financing Pro-poor Governance in AfricaDefines key lessons on financing pro-poor governance based on cases from Latin America, Asia and Africa (Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya and Uganda). The starting point for pro-poor fiscal decentralisation is that its major goals should be improved governance …
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Strategic Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries: Learning from Recent InnovationsThese papers discuss some of the major aspects of decentralization and urban change in the context of globalization. …
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Beyond Normative Models and Development Trends: Strategic Design and Implementation of Decentralization in Developing CountriesThis paper considers recent thinking on and experience with decentralization and local government reform in developing countries, primarily from the perspective of national policy. The paper begins by reviewing why decentralization has re-emerged as an …
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Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries: A Review of Current Concepts and PracticeThis paper examines the origins, conceptual foundations and practice of fiscal decentralization in developing countries. First, it considers why fiscal centralization has been so prominent historically in developing countries, and why this trend has been …
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Intergovernmental Transfers: Concepts, International Practice and Policy IssuesThere is a large conceptual and empirical literature on intergovernmental fiscal transfers.1 Drawing on this work and examples from various countries, we provide in this chapter a broad overview of the theory and practice of intergovernmental transfers, …
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Decentralization in Africa: Goals, Dimensions, Myths and ChallengesDecentralisation is a complex and often somewhat elusive phenomenon. Many countries around the world have been attempting- for several reasons and with varying degrees of intention and success-to create or strengthen sub-national governments in recent …