Foreword
1. From Government Decentralization to Decentralized Governance
2. Parallel and Partnership Approaches to Decentralized Governance: Experience in Weak States
3. Decentralization and Electronic Governance
4. Local Governments That Perform Well: Four Explanations
5. Political Decentralization in Africa: Experiences of Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa
6. Devolution toward Democracy: Lessons for Theory and Practice from the Philippines
7. Decentralization, Deconcentration, and Poverty Reduction in the Asia Pacific
8. Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Navigating a Viable Path to Reform
9. Government Decentralization and Decentralized Governance in Latin America: The Silent Revolution of the Local Level?
10. Devolution with Accountability: Learning from Good Practices
11. Decentralization and Participatory Local Governance: A Decision Space Analysis and Application to Peru
12. Challenges to Decentralized Governance in Weak States
13. Decentralization and Legal Empowerment of the Poor
14. Decentralization to Promote Effective and Efficient Pro-Poor Infrastructure and Service Delivery in the Least-Developed Countries
15. Designing Decentralized Coastal Management Programs
16. Issues and Best Practices in the Decentralization of Natural Resource Control in Developing Countries
Contributors
Index
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