Rethinking decentralization in developing countries

Abstract: This paper explores how a wide range of variables – institutional ones in particular – can affect decentralization efforts and how policies and incentives can be designed to improve outcomes. The question of capacity is also discussed.

Author(s): Litvack, Jennie Ilene; Ahmad, Junaid; Bird, Richard Miller

Source(s): , Sector studies series / World bank vii, 40 p., ill., tabs, 28 cm Sector studies series / World bank

Published: 1998 World bank, Washington, DC (English

ISBN/ISSN: 0-8213-4350-5/

Link: http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/decentralization/Rethinking%20Decentralization.pdf

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