Decentralization and Service Delivery
Language:
English
Publisher:
World Bank
Series/Journal Title:
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
Copyright:
2005
Pages:
29
Description:
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. This chapter 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
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