Decentralization in Developing Countries

Edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez () and Francois Vaillancourt

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This insightful study examines the decentralization experiences from 15 countries in different regions of the world. All of these countries have actively attempted to decentralize, or continue to do so, and have faced obstacles serious enough to either derail or significantly delay their decentralization objectives.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781849805087
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 An Overview of the Main Obstacles to Decentralization

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Francois Vaillancourt

Ch 2 Conceptual Problems in the Assignment of Functions in SEE: The Case of Albania

Bernard Dafflon

Ch 3 Decentralization in the Post-Conflict African Environment: Sierra Leone and Southern Sudan

Bob Searle

Ch 4 Challenge to Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Pakistan: The Revenue Assignment Dimension

Roy Bahl, Musharraf Cyan and Sally Wallace

Ch 5 Constraints to Effective Fiscal Decentralization in Peru

Ehtisham Ahmad and Mercedes García-Escribano

Ch 6 Reining in Provincial Fiscal ‘Owners’: Decentralization in Lao PDR

Juan Luis Gomez, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepulveda

Ch 7 Decentralization in Bangladesh: Change has been Elusive

William Fox and Balakrishna Menon

Ch 8 The Political-Economy of Decentralization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Kai Kaiser, Jean Mabi Mulumba and Tony Verheijen

Ch 9 Decentralization in Burkina Faso: The Slow March Towards Devolution

Eric Champagne and Ben Mamadou Ouegraogo

Ch 10 Decentralization in Cambodia: Consolidating Central Power or Building Accountability from Below?

Paul Smoke and Joanne Morrison

Ch 11 Decentralization in Madagascar: A String of Unfinished Races

Francois Vaillancourt

Ch 12 Decentralizing Egypt: Not Just Another Economic Reform

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev

Ch 13 Obstacles to Decentralization in Ethiopia: Political Controls versus Discretion and Accountability

Serdar Yilmaz and Varsha Venugopal

Ch 14 Tanzania’s Fiscal Arrangements: Obstacles to Fiscal Decentralization or Structures of Union-Preserving Federalism?

Luc Noiset and Mark Rider

Ch 15 The Difficult Road to Local Autonomy in Yemen: Decentralization Reforms between Political Rationale and Bureaucratic Resistances in a Multi-party Democracy of the Arabian Peninsula

Leonardo G. Romeo and Mohamed El Mensi

Ch 16 Sharing Petroleum Resources in Iraq: Obstacle or Foundation to Decentralization

Grant Bishop and Anwar Shah

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