Is Decentralization Good For Development?
Perspectives from Academics and Policy Makers
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 August 2015
- ISBN 9780198737506
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 241x172x26 mm
- Weight 672 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures and Tables 0
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Short description:
Is decentralisation good for development? This book explains when the answer is 'Yes' and when it is 'No'. It shows how decentralisation can be designed to drive development forward, and focuses on the institutional incentives that can strengthen democracy, boost economies, and improve public sector performance.
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Is decentralisation good for development? This book offers insights and lessons that help us understand when the answer is 'Yes', and when it is No'. It shows us how decentralisation can be designed to drive development forward, and focuses attention on how institutional incentives can be created for governments to improve public sector performance and strengthen economies in ways that enhance citizen well-being. It also draws attention to the political motives behind decentralisation reforms and how these shape the institutions that result.
This book brings together academics working at the frontier of research on decentralization with policymakers who have implemented reform at the highest levels of government and international organizations. Its purpose is to marry policymakers' detailed knowledge and insights about real reform processes with academics' conceptual clarity and analytical rigor. This synthesis naturally shifts the analysis towards deeper questions of decentralization, stability, and the strength of the state. These are explored in Part 1, with deep studies of the effects of reform on state capacity, political and fiscal stability, and democratic inclusiveness in Bolivia, Pakistan, India, and Latin America more broadly. These complex questions - crucially important to policymakers but difficult to address with statistics - yield before a multipronged attack of quantitative and qualitative evidence combined with deep practitioner insight. How should reformers design decentralisation? Part 2 examines these issues with evidence from four decades of reform in developing and developed countries. What happens after reform is implemented? Decentralization and local service provision turns to decentralization's effects on health and education services, anti-poverty programs with original evidence from 12 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Table of Contents:
Is Decentralization Good For Development? Perspectives from Academics and Policy Makers
Part I: Decentralization, Stability and the Strengthening of the State
Why I Decentralized Bolivia
Breaking the Countercyclical Pattern of Local Democracy in Pakistan
Inclusive Governance for Inclusive Development: The History, Politics and Economics of Panchayat Raj
Is Latin America on the Path to Achieving Sustainable Fiscal Decentralization?
Does Decentralization Strengthen or Weaken the State? Authority and Social Learning in a Supple State
Part II: Designing Decentralization: Taxes, Transfer, and Expenditures
The Fiscal Interest Approach: The Design of Tax and Transfer Systems
Maintaining Taxes at the Centre Despite Decentralization: Interactions with National Reforms
Political Capture of Decentralization: Vote Buying through Grants to Local Jurisdictions
Part III: Decentralization and Local Service Provision
Does yardstick competition influence local government fiscal behaviour in the Philippines?
Area-Based Competition and Awards as a Motivation Tool for Public Service Provision: The Experience of Xining, China
Empirical Studies of an Approach to Decentralization: 'Decision Space' in Decentralized Health Systems
Political Participation, Clientelism, and Targeting of Local Government Programs: Results from a Rural Household Survey in West Bengal, India
