Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction?

Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio

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Abstract: Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert contributors address this fundamental question facing policy-makers in developing as well as advanced countries. This timely book builds upon insights on the recent developments in the intergovernmental literature first outlined in the Handbook of Fiscal Federalism. New empirical evidence from across the globe is presented: policy-oriented chapters evaluate fiscal federalism with an emphasis on the effectiveness of decentralized service delivery, the decentralization process in different parts of the world is appraised, and specially commissioned research focuses on the political economy process and the outcomes of the decentralization process. The role of international agencies, as explicit donors, is examined in several chapters.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781848445529
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction?

Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio

Ch 2 Information Distortion, Elite Capture and Task Complexity in Decentralized Development

Jean-Philippe Platteau

Ch 3 Governance Dilemmas in Service Delivery

Pranab Bardhan

Ch 4 Political Economy Approaches to Fiscal Decentralization

Ben Lockwood

Ch 5 The Politics of Partial Decentralization

Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Shekhar Shah

Ch 6 What Do We Know? Evidence on Decentralization and Local Service Provision

Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio

Ch 7 Decentralization in Bolivia: Has it Made a Difference?

Gabriela Inchauste

Ch 8 Uganda: Managing More Effective Decentralization

Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio and Maria Gonzalez

Ch 9 The Impact of Decentralization on Education in Poland

Maciej Jakubowski and Irena Topińska

Ch 10 Evaluating the Effects of Decentralization on Public Service Delivery: The Spanish Experience

Albert Solé-Ollé

Ch 11 Decentralization and Public Service Provision – A Framework for Pro-poor Institutional Design

Regina Birner and Joachim von Braun

Ch 12 Fiscal Policy Instruments and the Political Economy of Designing Programs to Reach the Poorest

Ehtisham Ahmad

Ch 13 Subnational Insolvency and Governance: Cross-country Experiences and Lessons

Lili Liu and Michael Waibel

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