Book Description
Comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives on the current trend in the developing world of devolving political and economic power to local governments.
Author : Pranab K. Bardhan
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 9780262267694
Comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives on the current trend in the developing world of devolving political and economic power to local governments.
Author : S. S Meenakshisundaram
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 9788170225218
Author : Roy Bahl
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1786435306
This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge the gap between the conventional textbook treatment of fiscal decentralization and the actual practice of subnational government finance. The extensive literature about the theory and practice is surveyed and longstanding problems and new questions are addressed. It focuses on the key choices that must be made in decentralizing, on how economic and political factors shape the choices that countries make, and on how, by paying more attention to the need for a more comprehensive approach and the critical connections between different components of decentralization reform, everyone involved might get more for their money.
Author : G. Shabbir Cheema
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1983-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Disillusioned with the results of centralized government planning, many countries have recently tried placing planning authority with state, regional or district agencies. The authors in this volume examine experiences in Asia, South America, and Africa to review the varieties of decentralization policies and programmes. They identify the social, economic, and political factors that seem to influence their success or failure. Alternative approaches to decentralization of development planning are discussed, and prescriptions for improved implementation are made. Different concepts of decentralization are explored throughout the book, and the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of decentralization are also detailed.
Author : Jennie Ilene Litvack
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821343500
In an effort to reduce poverty and improve nutrition, this Bank operation assisted the Indian program Operation Flood to develop the dairy industry in India. This study examines the policy changes instituted to support the aid flow to the dairy sector and discusses the lessons learned and benefits realized through improved dairy production. It also presents suggestions for improvement. This program differs from other Bank efforts in that it focuses on a single commodity to alleviate poverty and raise living standards.
Author : Richard M. Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521101585
Fiscal Decentralisation in Developing Countries features important, original and up-to-date research from leading scholars assessing fiscal decentralization in developing countries. It has rich and varied case-study material from countries as diverse as India, China, Colombia, Bosnia-Herzogovina and South Africa.
Author : Jean-Paul Faguet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198737505
Is decentralisation good for development? This book explains when the answer is 'Yes' and when it is 'No'. It shows how decentralisation can be designed to drive development forward, and focuses on the institutional incentives that can strengthen democracy, boost economies, and improve public sector performance.
Author : Dennis A. Rondinelli
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821302354
Author : Pranab Bardhan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2006-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262524546
Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries examine this institutional transformation from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, offering detailed case studies of decentralization in eight countries: Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda. Some of these countries witnessed an unprecedented "big bang" shift toward comprehensive political and economic decentralization: Bolivia in 1995 and Indonesia after the fall of Suharto in 1998. Brazil and India decentralized in an uneven and more gradual manner. In some other countries (such as Pakistan), devolution represented an instrument for consolidation of power of a nondemocratic national government. In China, local governments were granted much economic but little political power. South Africa made the transition from the undemocratic decentralization of apartheid to decentralization under a democratic constitution. The studies provide a comparative perspective on the political and economic context within which decentralization took place, and how this shaped its design and possible impact. Contributors Omar Azfar, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Pranab Bardhan, Shubham Chaudhuri, Ali Cheema, Jean-Paul Faguet, Bert Hofman, Kai Kaiser, Philip E. Keefer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Justin Yifu Lin, Mingxing Liu, Jeffrey Livingston, Patrick Meagher, Dilip Mookherjee, Ambar Narayan, Adnan Qadir, Ran Tao, Tara Vishwanath, Martin Wittenberg
Author : John M. Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Administrative and political divisions
ISBN :