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Ahmad, Junaid (contributor) - 2005

"Dissatisfied with centralized approaches to delivering local public services, a large number of countries are decentralizing responsibility for these services to lower-level, locally elected governments. The results have been mixed. The paper provides a framework for evaluating the benefits and...

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From commissars to mayors : cities in the transition economies

Buckley, Robert M. - 2000

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Serbia : Decentralization and Local Service Delivery

World Bank - 2012

created problems for macroeconomic management through the running of deficits, accumulation of arrears, or the incurring of … institutional mechanisms for macroeconomic management at the sub-national level in Serbia. The next section of this chapter reviews … management in the sub-national governments. Since 2002, a number of important laws have strengthened the framework for regulating …

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Deepening Public Service Unit Reform to Improve Service Delivery

World Bank - 2012

The "Public Service Unit" (PSU), or shiye danwei, is one of the four categories of public sector institutions in China. The country has more than one million public service units (PSUs), or shiye danwei, with a labor force of around 30 million. Most PSUs were created as public service providers....

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Republic of Belarus : Social Accountability in Municipal Services

World Bank - 2014

, focusing in particular on Bank-funded Water, Waste management, and biomass-based district heating projects. The report aims to … five focused respectively on the Bank-funded Water Sanitation and Supply Project, Integrated Solid Waste Management Project …

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Baseline Assessment on Women's Accessibility to Public Services (West Java Province) : Management Strengthening and Institution Building for Local Public Service and Providers

World Bank - 2013

efficiency, effectiveness, quality, equity, accessibility, and responsiveness of public service delivery. Local governments in …

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Baseline Assessment on Women's Accessibility to Public Services (Banten Province) : Management Strengthening and Institution Building for Local Public Service and Providers

World Bank - 2013

One objective of decentralization is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, equity, accessibility, and … die every year, and 25 children under 5 die every hour. Management Strengthening and Institution Building for Local Public … Service and Providers (MSIB-LPSP) is program that having purpose to improve institutional management of population/ civil …

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Philippines : Study on Local Service Delivery

World Bank - 2013

This policy note analyzes the composition of public expenditures that support devolved services (including the resource allocation decisions that support these expenditures), an assessment of the quality of local service delivery based on available local data, and an evaluation of the...

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An Assignment of Local Service Delivery and Local Governments in Kenya

World Bank - 2013

The report examines the local government sector in Kenya, the reform and decentralization process, and the dynamics of local service delivery. The report is organized in three parts. The first, traces the broad contours of the reform process in Kenya: the inter-governmental system, local...

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Urban Services Delivery and the Poor : The Case of Three Central American Cities, Volume 2. City Reports

World Bank - 2013

The present study describes, and quantifies the provision of basic urban services to the poor, in three Central American cities in El Salvador, Honduras, and, Panama. It also identifies priority areas for government intervention, using specialized household surveys to quantify current deficits,...

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