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Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent
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Is Decentralization Good for Development?
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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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