Infrastructure - Economics, Governmental Finances & Fiscal Policies, Public Affairs & Administration - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
This collection of papers disseminates some of the lessons of the Bank ' s experience and research efforts on the linkages between decentralization and infrastructure service delivery. It follows up on World Development Report 1994, which focused on infrastructure. It shows that decentralization is not a panacea and unless some demanding requirements are met, performance gains will not materialize. More specifically, the papers provide: (a) a summary of the lessons from World Bank experience on decentralization as a way of providing a general context to the importance of infrastructure decentralization; (b) a review of the more institutional aspects and their implications for policy design; (c) an empirical assessment of the consequences of decentralization on expenditure levels and on performance in infrastructure and some indications of the possible handles available to policymakers to improve the odds of successful decentralization; and (d) a research agenda on decentralization relying more systematically on recent developments.Book Details
Published
July 31, 1995
Publisher
World Bank Publications
Pages
117
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780821333358