Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction?

by Giorgio Brosio

Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert contributors address this fundamental question facing policy-makers in developing as well as advanced countries. This timely book builds upon insights on the recent developments in the intergovernmental literature first outlined in the Handbook of Fiscal Federalism. New empirical evidence from across the globe is presented: policy-oriented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848445520
• ISBN13: 9781848445529
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages