Decentralizing Development - POD TITLE

Klappentext Does decentralization work in practice? Does it strengthen local level democracy and economic development? This book examines these questions by analyzing the experience of seven medium sized cities in Colombia and Chile. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork involving numerous interviews with actors at all levels and from all sectors. The result is a unique test, at the local level in Latin America, of the outcome of reforms to the institutional structure of government. Zusammenfassung Decentralization has become a fashionable policy prescription among reformers in Latin America. But how does it work in practice? This book seeks to answer this question by examining the experience of seven medium-sized provincial towns in Colombia and Chile. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Political Economy of Institutional Change in Colombia and Chile I 3: Decentralization in Four Colombian Cities 4: Chile: Decentralization with a Strong State and Weak Regions 5: Municipal and Regional Government in Chile: The Persistence of the Centre II 7: Central Government Reform or Local Autonomy? The Case of Education 8: Decentralization, Participation, and the Poor 9: Conclusions

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• Authors: Alan Angell, Alan (St Antony's College Angell, Alan Lowden Angell, Angell Alan, Pamela Lowden, Lowden Pamela, Rosemary Thorp, Rosemary (St Antony's College Thorp
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2001
• EAN: 9780199242313
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924231-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies; Queen Elizabeth House Series i; Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies; Queen Elizabeth House Developm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Chile, Colombia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, International Economics, Political Economy, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies