opportunities to education, paid employment, and real decisionmaking power whether in private or public sectors. This paper …

's decentralization policies and also, in informing future policymaking. In particular, it highlights the importance of (i) a well …

Two key recent events pushed forward the country's decentralization agenda. In 2019, the Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court … decentralization strategy from national government, and (iii) the need for greater coordination and guidance from national agencies …

automated election attempts, the cost per voter during the 2010 National Elections is higher than that of the 2004 National …This research paper looks into the automated election experiences of different countries and compares them with the … Philippine case. It also attempts to provide an economic basis for the Philippines' choice between purchasing the precinct count …

-critical services such as education, health, and water, with a view to formulating sectoral decentralization policy frameworks that … would serve as inputs to national strategies and plans in improving LSD in the Philippines. It develops a Triangulation … frameworks; (ii) decentralization can only create an enabling environment for local service delivery if and only if it is …

framework. -- decentralization ; development ; governance ; institutions ; local service delivery ; triangulation …

excel in their own-source revenue performance and creative use of corporate powers. -- decentralization ; devolution … ; decentralization and service delivery ; institutional design for decentralization ; decentralization capability ; local government unit …

summary of the effects of decentralization is given as a contextual background for the discussion of local finance reforms … issues in local finance reform and gives some recommendations. -- fiscal decentralization ; intergovernmental fiscal …

care to their local governments. This paper explores some key issues related to health decentralization in the Philippines … presence of horizontal and vertical fiscal interactions among local governments in the Philippines using local government …