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Author: Pinaki Chakraborty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-11
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 110710856X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Locus of decision-making: Understanding a decentralized flagship programme on health in India
Author: Pinaki Chakraborty
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781316674857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an analytical examination of financing and public service delivery challenges in a decentralized framework.
Author: Jerry M. Silverman
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780821322796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper is addressed to a broad audience of development professionals who are interested in both the substance of decentralisation issues and their impact on economic development. The paper summarises experience with alternative decentralisation arrangements and suggests a new analytical framework for assessing the impact of such arrangements on the performance of economic development programmes and projects. Consideration of alternative forms of decentralisation reveals the need to clarify and establish priorities among economic and political objectives. The potential for conflict among multiple objectives and the need to assess decentralisation policies in terms of acceptable trade-offs among those objectives summarises the importance of this paper.
Author: Reed Camacho Kinney
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-04
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1469186934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Representational government is not authentic democracy. The American Constitution cannot defend us from socioeconomic domination by centralized power. Independence means that people organize among themselves in order to meet all of their existential needs, which include more than preserving corporal survival. It means actualizing a better civil and civic organization, and adding to that a civic-economic organization (explained in my other writings) in order to afford every child the support needed to grow as individuated people. The genius my father contributed is the means of making consensus-based decision making processes a structured organization in conjunction with mutual banking, and its production-based economy, which as an organization must expand, or perish. That inbuilt expansive component is what distinguishes DESO from all other attempts to create a better lifestyle. By forcing decentralization to expand, as a structural component, consequent of consensus-based organization and its mutual banking, and its production-based economy, it will compete with mass centrist society for members, because living in real, sovereign community provides a better quality of life; a better culture. I am encouraged that there are people really interested in making this project move into its actualization, and that eventuality is nearing. My blog: http://decentralizationblog.wordpress.com
Author: Pinaki Chakraborty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-11
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1316673952
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an analytical examination of financing and public service delivery challenges in a decentralized framework. It also provides critical insights into the effectiveness of public expenditure, through benefit incidence analysis of education and healthcare services in India. The benefits of decentralization always come with conflicts and trade-offs. By unpacking the process of decentralization, the authors identify that 'unfunded mandates', arising from the asymmetry between finances and functions at local levels, are a major challenge. The analysis is carried out by distilling the existing studies in this area, and through an empirical investigation of public finance data at different public sector levels in India, as well as in some selected developing countries. Using the household survey statistics of consumption expenditure, an analysis of utilization or benefit incidence of public spending on social sectors in India is achieved, covering education and health sectors. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Katalin Tausz
Publisher:
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9789639419636
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decentralization is defined, interpreted and made a political issue in several-sometimes contradictory--ways. This book attempts to understand and describe one segment of the story: welfare policy. It makes an inventory of who are the main actors, what is decentralized in the social sector (administrative, fiscal, political, service-delivery structures, and institutions), where or to what level of governance decentralization is relevant, and how and by what means is decentralization implemented in the social sector.
Author: Vito Cistulli
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9789251048368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication presents an overview of the concepts and definitions of environment and sustainable development, showing the importance of environment and natural resources for the economies of developing countries. It provides basic knowledge and analytical tools related to environment/economy interactions and how these should be taken into account in decision-making at decentralized, or subnational, level. It reviews the role of government and the instruments at its disposal, in addition to regulatory instruments, to create a context in which environmental issues are analysed and addressed.
Author: Akampurira Abraham
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 3954891336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Communities need a holistic approach to address the problems that affect the people at the grass root. The planning of the direct beneficiaries involves decentralization in order to allow the lower power centers to widely take part in the development of society. Concerns of the grass root people form the need for decentralization and local governance. People’s involvement in the planning on the village level and all local government units, makes the identification and solving of the problem easier. High participatory levels of all the people especially the marginalized, encourages innovation to source for the appropriate solutions to the common problems that face society. It therefore calls a decentralized system that caters for the voters’ preferences while providing for their services. The people’s concerns call for local planning and the transfer of power to the public so that services are brought nearer to the people. This study will cover the aspects of local government and decentralization such as good governance, democratization, civil society, deconcentration, devolution and delegation, and its relation to the development of societies.
Author: Paul Lindert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-03-02
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 904813739X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Much of the scholarly and professional literature on development focuses either on the ‘macro’ level of national policies and politics or on the ‘micro’ level of devel- ment projects and household or community socio-economic dynamics. By contrast, this collection pitches itself at the ‘meso’ level with a comparative exploration of the ways in which local institutions – municipalities, local governments, city authorities, civil society networks and others – have demanded, and taken on, a greater role in planning and managing development in the Latin American region. The book’s rich empirical studies reveal that local institutions have engaged upwards, with central authorities, to shape their policy and resource environments and in turn, been pressured from ‘below’ by local actors contesting the ways in which the structures and processes of local governance are framed. The examples covered in this volume range from global cities, such as Mexico and Santiago, to remote rural areas of the Bolivian and Brazilian Amazon. As a result the book provides a deep understanding of the diversity and complexity of local governance and local development in Latin America, while avoiding the stereotyped claims about the impact of globalisation or the potential benefits of decentralisation, as frequently stated in less empirically grounded analysis.
Author: Jean-Paul Faguet
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0198737505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book is a product of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue's Decentralization Task Force, and was first conceived at a conference held at Columbia University in New York in 2009"--Page vii.
