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Is decentralization good for development?: perspectives from academics and policy makers /
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Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | http://www.amazon.in/Decentralization-Good-Development-Perspectives-Academics/dp/0198737505#reader_0198737505 |
Table of Contents:
- Is decentralization good for development? : perspectives from academics and policy makers / Jean-Paul Faguet and Caroline Pöschl
- pt. I. Decentralization, stability, and the strengthening of the state. "Why I decentralized Bolivia" / Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and Jean-Paul Faguet
- Breaking the countercyclical pattern of local democracy in Pakistan / Ali Cheema, Adnan Q. Khan, and Roger B. Myerson
- Inclusive governance for inclusive development : the history, politics, and economics of Panchayat Raj / Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Is Latin America on a path to sustainable fiscal decentralization? / Matteo Grazzi and Fidel Jaramillo
- Does decentralization strengthen or weaken the state? : authority and social learning in a supple state / Jean-Paul Faguet, Ashley M. Fox, and Caroline Pöschl
- pt. II. Designing decentralization : taxes, transfers, and expenditures. A fiscal interest approach to subnational government incentives : implications for the design of tax and transfer systems / Caroline Pöschl and Barry R. Weingast
- Maintaining taxes at the centre despite decentralization : interactions with national reforms / Giorgio Brosio and Juan Pablo Jiménez
- Political capture of decentralization : vote buying through grants to local jurisdictions / Stuti Khemani
- pt. III. Decentralization and local service provision. Does yardstick competition influence local government fiscal behavior in the Philippines? / Joseph J. Capuno, Stella A. Quimbo, Aleli D. Kraft, Carlos Antonio R. Tan, Jr, and Vigile Marie B. Fabella
- Area-based competitions and awards as a motivational tool for public service provision : the experience of Xining, China / Binqin Li and Yongmei Zhang
- Empirical studies of an approach to decentralization : "decision space" in decentralized health systems / Thomas J. Bossert
- Political participation, clientelism, and targeting of local government programs : results from a rural household survey in West Bengal, India / Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, and Abhirup Sarkar.