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DECENTRALIZATION POLICIES IN ASIAN DEVELOPMENT
edited by Shinichi Ichimura (Kyoto University, Japan) & Roy Bahl (Georgia State University, USA)
This book explores the important topic of fiscal decentralization in Asian countries, and focuses on how government finance and administration are being reformed to bring budgetary decisions closer to voters. The focus on Asia is especially important because all countries in this region have been undergoing serious fiscal reforms in the past decade. They include one of the biggest decentralization reforms in Indonesia, significant reforms in democratic Philippines and Vietnam which are in transition, and Japan, whose fiscal reconstruction program is covered extensively. India and China, which are also covered, are very special cases because of their size and because their policies must fit decentralization into a significant economic growth scenario.
Contents:
- The Promise and Reality of Decentralization in Asia (R Bahl)
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Reality of Decentralization Issues in Japan (T Hatta)
- Political Decentralization:
- Political Decentralization and Fiscal Reform in Japan (T Ihori)
- China’s Urbanization and Fiscal Decentralization (W Zuo)
- Fiscal Federalism in India: Trends and Reform (G Rao)
- Administrative Reform in Taiwan (J N Shih)
- Decentralization in the Philippines (B E Diokno)
- Thailand’s Decentralization (D Weist)
- Administrative Decentralization in Vietnam (U K Hung)
- Indonesia’s Rapid Decentralization (B Hofman & W Fingler)
- The Reform of Local Public Finance:
- The Reform of Japanese Local Governments (Shin Saito)
- Local Public Finance in Taiwan (Tseng & Lee)
- Revenues of Malaysian Local Governments (Setapa & Lin)
- Balancing Autonomy and Accountability in the Philippines (R G Manasan)
Readership: Academics in economics, public policy and administration, and
political science; government officials in research offices, ministries of finance, local government, and provincial finance offices; legislatures and legislative aids; international agencies such as ADB, World Bank, and IMF.
| 310pp (approx.) |
Pub. date: Scheduled Winter 2008 |
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