Vietnam made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s. Poverty rates decreased from 58% to 37% between … administration in Vietnam. Program 135 was established in 1998 to provide resources to more than 1,700 of the poorest communes for … Project (CBRIP) builds on the Government's initiative, but offers a somewhat different approach to infrastructure development …

fiscal decentralization system. Using Kamataka and Kerala as case studies, this report describes the context for rural … decentralization in India, summarizes the current fiscal situation of district, block and village panchayats, identifies the main … more advanced than others in implementing rural fiscal decentralization and are therefore relevant for drawing lessons for …

capacity of local administrations to operate in the new legal and fiscal environment created by the decentralization reform …

economic development and growth in those provinces. The findings suggest a weak negative economic effect of decentralization …"There have been important developments in the decentralization of the government structure in Turkey since the early … 1980s. This paper examines economic development and growth in Turkish provinces. Although there is a rich literature on the …

This publication addresses the question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves …-conflict countries. The publication is a collection of eight papers written by authors who were closely involved in the decentralization … local councils. Compared to most other Sub-Saharan African countries that have embarked upon decentralization, Sierra Leone …

"Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from …