Decentralisation & local government
- Local fiscal discipline
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This paper addresses four key questions. What is local fiscal discipline? What is the value of local government fiscal discipline? What are the consequences of poor local fiscal discipline? What institutions at the intergovernmental and local levels are important for local fiscal discipline?
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- Effective administration and innovative government are crucial conditions for successful post-conflict reconstruction
- ( A. Alberti;P.K. Blind;J.M. Kauzya / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations , 2010)
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Recovery after conflict is possible is possible if public administration can earn the trust of the people,
provide services to them, and and operate in an effective, transparent and acc... How responsive is local governance to citizens' needs in sub-Saharan Africa?
- ( M. Bratton / Afrobarometer , 2010)
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The daily lives of Africans remain relatively untouched by the agents and institutions of a central state.
Ordinary people are more likely to experience day-to-day interactions with local gov... - Auditing in Brazil as an anti-corruption strategy
- ( C. Ferraz;F. Finan / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2009)
- Political institutions can affect corruption. The researcher uses audit reports from an anti-corruption programme in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and t...
- Decentralisation and accountability in Mexico
- ( M. Grindle (ed) / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2010)
- As countries throughout the world democratise and decentralise, citizen participation in public life should increase. It is said citizens in a decentralised and democratic system of government are gov...
- Civil society roles in Tanzania
- ( W. Egli;D. Zurcher / NADEL – Centre for Development and Cooperation (ETH Zurich) , 2007)
- In many developing countries decentralisation efforts have been planned and implemented as a means to improve service delivery to all citizens, to increase citizen participation, and to improve good g...
- Decentralisation programming: a handbook
- ( E. Connerley (ed) / US Agency for International Development , 2009)
- This handbook conceives decentralisation as a means to achieve democratisation. Decentralisation is a reform that advances the exercise of political freedom and individual economic choice in a context...
- Local governance under multi-party rule in Malawi
- ( H. Kayuni;F. Cloete / Chancellor College, University of Malawi , 2006)
- This paper explains that during one-party rule, Malawi’s local assemblies were largely side-lined and hence rendered ineffective. The Malawi Congress Party was the only legal party and it heavil...
- Assessing the role of councillors in service delivery at local government level in South Africa
- ( G. Paradza;L. Mokwena;R. Richards / Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa , 2010)
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Assessing the impact of Sector Budget Support on local government in Tanzania
- ( P. Tidemand / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2009)
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This is a case study examining Sector Budget Support (SBS) in the Local Government (LG) sector in Tanzania, with particular emphasis on the Local Government Capital Development Grant modality (LGCD...
Is devolving power to local authorities the way forward?
- ( T. Shakespeare / Localis , 2010)
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This report is a contribution to the debate on the future of local government performance and assessment. In it the author outlines the possibility of reducing the burden of inspection on coun...
