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Promoting Good Governance with Social Funds and Decentralization

Bad governance undermines development. Two important types of World Bank support for local governance are social funds and broadly based support for governments committed to decentralizing responsibility and power to local governments and other loc...

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Main Author: Parker, Andrew
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GOVERNANCE
SOCIAL FUNDS
DECENTRALIZATION
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
LOCAL COMMUNITIES ACCOUNTABILITY
BASIC SERVICES
CAPACITY BUILDING
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS
COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CORRUPTION
DECENTRALIZATION REFORMS
DECISIONMAKING
DIRECT FINANCING
ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES
FISCAL
GOOD GOVERNANCE
GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
LACK OF TRANSPARENCY
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
LOCAL TAXES
MUNICIPAL FINANCE
NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS
NATIONS
POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION
PRESIDENCY
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
PRIVATE SECTOR
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
PUBLIC SECTOR
SOCIAL PROTECTION
SUBVERSION
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/2011700/promoting-good-governance-social-funds-decentralization
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11405
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Summary:Bad governance undermines development. Two important types of World Bank support for local governance are social funds and broadly based support for governments committed to decentralizing responsibility and power to local governments and other local institutions. But there are concerns that these two approaches, which address different elements of governance, sometimes work at cross-purposes. A study was therefore commissioned to examine the interaction between social funds and decentralization in Bolivia and Honduras (advanced decentralization), Peru and Zimbabwe (some decentralization), and Cambodia, Malawi, and Zambia (little or no decentralization). This Note is based on the findings of the study.

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