Author: Carl Jayarajah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, experience, world, adjustment, sectoral, structural
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1995-07-31
ISBN-10: 0821331221
ISBN-13: 9780821331224

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 290. Draws on the lessons of experience of developing countries in decentralizing infrastructure and provides new empirical evidence on the quantitative and qualitative effects of decentralization. This collection of five papers highlights the lessons of the World Bank's research and experience on the linkages between infrastructure and decentralization. The paper provides: - A summary of the lessons from World Bank experience, giving a general review of the importance of the decentralization of infrastructure - A review of the institutional aspects of decentral

Author: Ariel Dinar
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: global, analysis, management, basin, river, decentralization
Number of Pages: 91
Published: 2005
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Decentralization and increased stakeholder involvement have been major elements of water sector reform as ways to promote sustainable and integrated resource management particularly of river basins. Based on an analytical framework for relating decentralization and stakeholder involvement to improved river basin management, this paper infers several hypotheses about factors associated with greater or lesser likelihood of success of the decentralization process using data from 83 river basins worldwide. The results suggest that physical, political, economic, financial, and institutional charact

Author: Gita Gopal
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, support, world, evaluation, client, countries, decentralization
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2008-08-07
ISBN-10: 0821376357
ISBN-13: 9780821376355

'Decentralization in Client Countries' assesses the effectiveness of Bank support for decentralization between fiscal years 1990 and 2007 in 20 countries, seeking to inform the design and implementation of future support. Given the difficulties of measuring the results of decentralization, the evaluation uses intermediate outcome indicators- such as strengthened legal and regulatory frameworks for intergovernmental relations, improved administrative capacity, and increased accountability of subnational governments and functionaries to higher levels of government and to local citizens- to asses

Author: Gordon Crawford
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: conflict, poverty, pathway, africa, decentralisation
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 9053569340
ISBN-13: 9789053569344

The current momentum for decentralization of government in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world is driven in many instances by the needs and desires of donor organizations. This volume questions whether this sort of decentralization offers a significant pathway out of poverty and conflict in Africa—addressing issues of poverty reduction in Uganda, Ghana, Malawi, and Tanzania and issues of conflict management in Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, and Rwanda. Conceptual weaknesses and problems of implementation are addressed, especially the limitations of donor-driven decentrali

Author: Susan Stout
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: literature, lessons, projects, health, evaluating
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1997-04
ISBN-10: 0821338811
ISBN-13: 9780821338810

This book explores the wave of decentralization that has swept through Latin America and the projected institutional changes within the governments in the region. Although it notes the ways in which decentralization implies a critique of past governing patterns, the emphasis is on such potential consequences of governmental change as the strengthening of democratic participation in government and the improvement of local public service. The book draws upon institutional experiments carried out at the state level to examine which decentralization strategies work best in Latin America. It is org

Author: Marito Garcia
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: ethiopia, decentralization, delivery, service, achieving
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 082137382X
ISBN-13: 9780821373828

Achieving Better Service Delivery Through Decentralization in Ethiopia examines the role decentralization has played in the improvement of human development indicators in Ethiopia.Ethiopia has made major strides in improving its human development indicators in the past 15 years, achieving significant increases in the coverage of basic education and health services in a short period of time. Improvements took place during a period of massive decentralization of fiscal resources, to the regions in 1994 and to woredas in 2002-03. The devolution of power and resources from the federal and regional

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: madagascar, decentralization
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0821358413
ISBN-13: 9780821358412

Decentralization in Madagascar is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank's work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community.This study takes stock of Madagascar's first 10 years of decentralization. As with many other developing countries, Madagascar's decentralization process has seen reversals, uncertainties and lack of clarity. This explains why Madagascar remains a highly centralized country with only about 3 to