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', in Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio (eds), Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction … Ahmad and Vito Tanzi (eds), Managing Fiscal Decentralization, Chapter 10, London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, 205 … Decentralization and Land Policies, Chapter 12, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 305-27 -- Iwan Barankay and Ben …
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This book explores the system of financing local governments in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using evidence from the last two decades, the authors, experts on their particular countries, describe the development of the current local government finance system in each nation,...
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A decade and a half since the Philippines embarked on a major program of decentralization, the authors of this book … people - but also for many other developing countries now embarking on decentralization programs. The book therefore has … decentralization program in the Philippines has been reasonably successful, they argue there is an urgent need for a clear, predictable …
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In the efficient delivery of local public services, size matters. Many countries around the world have vertical government structures that are perceived as inefficient because of their high levels of jurisdictional fragmentation. This timely volume examines the different strategies used to...
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This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal … countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues …
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these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide … scholars, that take a hard, objective look at the many effects of decentralization on economic and political issues in …pt. 1. The history and politics of the 'big bang' decentralization -- pt. 2. Expenditure and tax assignment -- pt. 3 …
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pt. 1. Approaches to fiscal federalism -- pt. 2. Decentralization and development -- pt. 3. Implementing multilevel …
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Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert … an emphasis on the effectiveness of decentralized service delivery, the decentralization process in different parts of … the decentralization process. The role of international agencies, as explicit donors, is examined in several chapters …
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Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...
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with changes created by decentralization is explored …
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