Fiscal Decentralisation in Tanzania: For Better of for Worse?

Odd Fjeldstad

Working Papers from Universitat Zurich - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Institut

Abstract: Tanzania is currently implementing a local government reform aimed at improving public service delivery. An important component of the reform is to increase the fiscal autonomy of local authorities. This policy is encouraged and partly initiated by the donor community. The purpose of this article is to explore to what extent we can expect that increased fiscal autonomy will improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the public sector. The paper concludes that it is unrealistic to expect that the present administration in many local authorities in Tanzania has adequate capacity and the required integrity to manage increased fiscal autonomy.

Keywords: LOCAL GOVERNMENT; DECENTRALISATION; TAXATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H71 O18 O23 R51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2001
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