Local Government in the Third World
Author: Philip Mawhood
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 300
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Author: Philip Mawhood
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0821365665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a new institutional economics perspective on alternative models of local governance, offering a comprehensive view of local government organization and finance in the developing world. The experiences of ten developing/transition economies are reviewed to draw lessons of general interest in strengthening responsive, responsible, and accountable local governance. The book is written in simple user friendly language to facilitate a wider readership by policy makers and practitioners in addition to students and scholars of public finance, economics and politics.
Author: P. Mawhood
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Published: 1993
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi
Publisher: South Asia Books
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9788170261605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Mawhood
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Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780835729543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gerhard Tötemeyer
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pranab Bardhan
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006-06-16
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0262524546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 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: Leendert Theodoor van den Dool
Publisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9059720997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the development of local government on a global scale: its history, practice, and future. Leon van den Dool explores local government from a practical standpoint, including human resource policy and financial management, offers a concise summary of modern public management theories, and links this theory with practice, providing case studies from countries at different stages of development. A valuable tool for students and scholars of management, Making Local Government Work is also an excellent overview for anyone interested in how such organizations really operate.
Author: Harry Goulbourne
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1000022528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject of local government and post-conflict reconstruction sits at the intersection of several interrelated research areas, notably conflict/peacebuilding, governance, and political economy. This volume addresses a gap in the academic literature: whilst decentralisation is frequently included in peace agreements, the actual scope and role of local government is far less frequently discussed. This gap remains despite a considerable literature on local government in developing countries more generally, particularly with regard to decentralisation; but also, despite a considerable and growing literature on post-conflict reconstruction. This volume provides a mixture of case study, cross-case studies, practitioner reflection, and conceptual material on the function of local government in the context of decentralisation in post-conflict countries, from both academics and policy-makers. This collection of in-depth single- and multi-country case study analysis is complemented by practitioner reflections and framed within the 2030 Agenda building on the New Urban Agenda, and particularly the Sustainable Development Goal 16 to ‘promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.’ The chapters in this book were originally published in the online journal Third World Thematics.