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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829299503321

Autore

Blore Ian

Titolo

Municipalities and finance : a sourcebook for capacity building / / Ian Blore, Nick Devas, Richard Slater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, VA, : Earthscan, 2004

ISBN

1-136-56077-7

1-136-56078-5

1-280-47510-2

9786610475100

1-84977-204-5

600-00-0061-8

1-4175-8316-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Municipal capacity building series

Altri autori (Persone)

DevasNick

SlaterR. P

Disciplina

352.4/216

Soggetti

Municipal finance - Developing countries

Local finance - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a strategic framework for municipal capacity building in finance -- Diagnosing current capacity -- Focusing financial goals -- Enhancing tax revenues -- Exploiting charges -- Towards better budgeting -- Controlling costs -- Accounting reform -- Finance for investment -- Framework for action.

Sommario/riassunto

Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level. In many countries, decentralisation has brought the issue of municipal finance to the fore. This sourcebook provides a framework for analysing municipal finance capacity and ways of addressing financial constraints.The ideas come from real-life innovative practice in four countries - India, Brazil, Kenya and Uganda - with additional examples from elsewhere. Emphasis is given to how those innovations and improvements were developed and sustained