Decentralization and service delivery (Record no. 296458)

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082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 352
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Personal name Ahmad, Junaid
9 (RLIN) 88009
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Decentralization and service delivery
Statement of responsibility, etc. Ahmad, Junaid
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Washington, D.C.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. World Bank
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2005
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 27 p.
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title Policy Research Working Paper, no. 3603
9 (RLIN) 88010
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. """Dissatisfied with centralized approaches to delivering local public services, a large number of countries are decentralizing responsibility for these services to lower-level, locally elected governments. The results have been mixed. The paper provides a framework for evaluating the benefits and costs, in terms of service delivery, of different approaches to decentralization, based on relationships of accountability between different actors in the delivery chain. Moving from a model of central provision to that of decentralization to local governments introduces a new relationship of accountability-between national and local policymakers-while altering existing relationships, such as that between citizens and elected politicians. Only by examining how these relationships change can we understand why decentralization can, and sometimes cannot, lead to better service delivery. In particular, the various instruments of decentralization-fiscal, administrative, regulatory, market, and financial-can affect the incentives facing service providers, even though they relate only to local policymakers. Likewise, and perhaps more significantly, the incentives facing local and national politicians can have a profound effect on the provision of local services. Finally, the process of implementing decentralization can be as important as the design of the system in influencing service delivery outcomes. ""--World Bank web site."
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Decentralization in government
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Municipal services
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Devarajan, Shantayanan
9 (RLIN) 1115825
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Personal name Khemani, Stuti
9 (RLIN) 1003
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shah, Shekhar
9 (RLIN) 88011
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Koha item type Book
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Ahmedabad Ahmedabad   04/05/2009   352 A4D3 162158 04/09/2009 04/09/2009 Book

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