Decentralization and local governance in developing countries [electronic resource] : a comparative perspective / edited by Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee.
Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in t...
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Table of Contents:
- The rise of local governments: an overview / Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee
- Inequality and innovation: decentralization as an opportunity structure in Brazil / Gianpaolo Baiocchi
- Decentralization, democratic transition, and local governance in Indonesia / Bert Hofman and Kai Kaiser
- Decentralizing Bolivia: local government in the jungle / Jean-Paul Faguet
- What difference does a constitutional amendment make? The 1994 Panchayati Raj Act and the attempt to revitalize rural local government in India / Shubham Chaudhuri
- Decentralization in West Bengal: origins, functioning, and impact / Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee
- Decentralization in Uganda / Omar Azfar, Jeffrey Livingston, and Patrick Meagher
- Local government reform in Pakistan: context, content, and causes / Ali Cheema, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, and Adnan Qadir
- Decentralization in Pakistan: are local governments likely to be more accountable than central government? / Philip E. Keefer, Ambar Narayan, and Tara Vishwanath
- Decentralization and local governance in China's economic transition / Justin Yifu Lin, Ran Tao, and Mingxing Liu
- Decentralization in South Africa / Martin Wittenberg.