Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries: A Review of Current Concepts and Practice

By P. Smoke. 2001

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1. K. Andersson
2. Elinor Ostrom
3. K. Heggstad
4. F. Byamugisha
5. D. Olowu
6. M. McGillivray
7. M. Robinson
8. R. M. Bird

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• Local Institutional and Political Structures and Processes: Recent Experience in Africa (2003, background): “This article highlights political dilemmas because they have attracted particular attention and key political constraints must be mitigated before major economic and institutional dilemmas are effectively tackled (Ostrom et al., 1993; Nzokenu, 1994; Smoke, 1994, 2001; Litvack et al., 1998).”
• Understanding human well-being (2007, background): “…pp.viiþ 363, £22.95, ISBN 0262524546 The last decade has seen the publication of a number of collections of country case studies on decentralisation (see, for example: Bird and Vaillancourt 1999; Oyugi 2000; Smoke 2003; Kimenyi and Meagher 2004; Mitullah 2004; Olowu and Wunsch 2004; Robinson 2007).”
• Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective (2008, background): “Previous research has suggested that a major constraint for effective decentralized decision making is that central governments rarely give up enough power or provide sufficient support to local authorities (Adamolekun 1991; Agrawal and Ribot 1999; Bahl 1999; Bird and Vaillancourt 1999; Blair 2000; ”
• Does Decentralisation Improve Equity and Efficiency in Public Service Delivery Provision (2007, background): “Devolution of responsibility for service provision to local governments is usually accompanied by some element of financial decentralisation through resource transfers, usually as a share of central taxation, or enhanced powers to raise revenues through a variety of local taxes (Bahl and Linn 1994; ”
• Local Government Revenue Mobilisation in Anglophone Africa (2012, background): “5 According to Yatta and Vaillancourt (2010), around 980 local governments in Algeria were in deficit in 2007.”
• Democratic Decentralisation of Natural Resources: Institutional Choice and Discretionary Power Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa (2003, unknown): “(Mawhood, 1983; Ribot 1996; Romeo, 1996; Crook and Manor, 1998; Agrawal and Ribot, 1999; Smoke, 2000; Mandondo, 2000).”
• Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity: A Program to Scale Up Reforms and Investments (2013, background): “Considerable literature suggests that taxes on land and real property provide an eff ective mechanism to support decentralization of governance in a way that minimizes distortions to the economy, while also contributing to cost recovery in land administration and discouraging speculative accumulatio”
• Subnational Taxation in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature (2011, background): “As Breton (1996) demonstrates, however, in reality, governments are usually both more competitive and less monolithic (and monopolistic) leviathans than Brennan and Buchanan (1980) assume.”
• Decentralization's Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia (2008, unknown): “A decade and a half later, surveys by Piriou-Sall (1998), Manor (1999), and Smoke (2001) are slightly more positive, but with caveats about the strength of the evidence in decentralization’s favor.”