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  2. Is Decentralization Good for Development?
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  • FOREWORD
  • Chapter 1 – IS DECENTRALIZATION GOOD FOR DEVELOPMENT?
  • Chapter 2 – “Why I Decentralized Bolivia”[1]
  • Chapter 3 – BREAKING THE COUNTERCYCLICAL PATTERN OF LOCAL DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN
  • Chapter 4 – INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE FOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
  • Chapter 5 – Is Latin America on the path to achieving sustainable fiscal decentralization?”[1]
  • Chapter 6 – DOES DECENTRALIZATION STRENGTHEN OR WEAKEN THE STATE?
  • Chapter 7 – A Fiscal Interest Approach to Subnational Government Incentives: Implications for the Design of Tax and Transfer Systems
  • Chapter 8 – Maintaining taxes at the centre despite decentralization: Interactions with national reforms
  • Chapter 9 – POLITICAL CAPTURE OF DECENTRALIZATION: Vote buying through grants to local jurisdictions
  • Chapter 10 – Does yardstick competition influence local government fiscal behaviour in the Philippines?*
  • Chapter 11 – Area-based competition and awards as a motivation tool for public service provision: The experience of Xining, China
  • Chapter 12 – Empirical Studies of an Approach to Decentralization: “Decision Space” in Decentralized Health Systems
  • Chapter 13 – POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, CLIENTELISM AND TARGETING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS: Results from a Rural Household Survey in West Bengal, India[1]


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