Decentralization and the Provision and Financing of Social Services: Concepts and Issues

C Ugaz

Research Paper from World Institute for Development Economics Research

Abstract: This paper is the fruit of an attempt to distinguish the elements, present in a fiscal decentralization process, that are likely to contribute to efficiency enhancement in the provision of social services in developing countries. From the methodological point of view, the paper makes an effort, whenever possible, to isolate the economic from the political in the arguments for and against fiscal decentralization.

Keywords: SOCIAL SERVICES; FISCAL POLICY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H53 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 1997
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