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Leadership and Innovation in Subnational Government : Case Studies from Latin America.

This book is about inventing successes and good practices of governments that are "closer to the people." Numerous examples throughout Latin America indicate-often despite macroeconomic instability, high inflation, and strong top-down regulation-that subnational actors have repeatedly achi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Campbell, Tim, Fuhr, Harald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : World Bank, ©2004.
Colección:WBI development studies.
World Bank e-Library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Background and scope. 1. Introduction and preview / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr
  • 2. Context of change : decentralization and state reform / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr
  • 3. Research questions : inventing decentralized government / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr
  • 4. Selections of cases and methods / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr
  • pt. 2. Cases. 5. Fiscal management and local resource mobilzation. 5-1. The politics of participation in Tijuana, Mexico : inventing a new style of governance / Tim Campbell and Travis Katz
  • 5-2. Tax management in the municipalites of Valledupar and Manizales, Colombia / Alberto Maldonado.
  • 6. Administrative performance and management. 6-1. Modernizing a provincial public sector : an experiment in Mendoza, Argentina / Harald Fuhr
  • 6-2. Changing the managerial mindset : the FONDEVE in Conchalí, Chile / Florence Eid
  • 7. Participation in local and regional decisionmaking. 7-1. Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Zander Navarro
  • 7-2. Improving basic intrastructure in Mendoza, Argentina : MENPROSIF / Tim Campbell
  • 8. Public service provision. 8-1. Innovative urban transport in Curitiba, Brazil / Roberto Santoro and Josef Leitmann
  • 8-2. Partnering for services in Santa Cruz, Bolivia / Fernando Rojas.
  • 9. Public-private collaboration. 9-1. Partnering in Cali, Colombia, for planning and management / Fernando Rojas
  • 9-2. Privatizing ports and mines in Venezuelan states / Rafael de la Cruz and Arianna Legovini
  • 9-3. Municipalities, banks, and the poor in shelter and infrastructure of Nicaraguan cities / Alfredo Stein
  • pt. 3. Lessons for donors and policymakers. 10. Challenge for donors--sustaining the engine of reform
  • 10-1. Promoting democracy through decentralization and strengthening local governance : USAID's approach and experience / Mark L. Schneider
  • 10-2. Policy choices and institutional dynamics of decentralization : operational implications for technical cooperation / Albrecht Stockmayer
  • 11. Conclusions and policy lessons / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr.