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Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? / edited by Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2009. - viii, 401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

1. Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction?;
2. Information Distortion, Elite Capture and Task Complexity in Decentralized;
3. Governance Dilemmas in Service Delivery;
4. Political Economy Approaches to Fiscal Decentralization;
5. The Politics of Partial Decentralization;
6. What Do We Know? Evidence on Decentralization and Local Service Provision;
7. Decentralization in Bolivia: Has it Made a Difference?;
8. Uganda: Managing More Effective Decentralization;
9. The Impact of Decentralization on Education in Poland;
10. Evaluating the Effects of Decentralization on Public Service Delivery: The Spanish Experience;
11. Decentralization and Public Service Provision – A Framework for Pro-poor Institutional Design;
12. Fiscal Policy Instruments and the Political Economy of Designing Programs to Reach the Poorest;
13. Subnational Insolvency and Governance: Cross-country Experiences and Lessons.

ISBN: 9781848445529 (hbk.)

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA-96310 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Poverty
Political aspects
Intergovernmental
Decentralization
Reduction.

Dewey Class. No.: 339.46 AHM