Improving municipal management for cities to succeed [[electronic resource] ] : an IEG special study

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (126 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.1609172/4
• Soggetto topico: City planning - Developing countries; Municipal services - Developing countries; Municipal government - Developing countries; Municipal finance - Developing countries; Economic assistance - Developing countries
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Management Comments; Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE); 1 Managing Engines of Growth; 2 Bank Support for Better Municipal Management; Figure 2.1 MDP Trends, 1998-2008; Figure 2.2 MDPs across the Regions, 1998-2008; Table 2.1 Completed and Ongoing MDPs by Region, 1998-2008; Table 2.2 Completed MDPs with More Municipal Clients Perform Better; Box 2.1 Defining Features of Different MDP Approaches; Table 2.3 Completed MDPs: Performance by Region, 1998-2008 ; Table 2.4 Focus of Objectives of Completed and Ongoing MDPs, 1998-2008Table 2.5 Focus of Components of Completed and Ongoing MDPs, 1998-2008; 3 Better Municipal Planning; Table 3.1 Summary of MDP Results in Municipal Planning; 4 Stronger Municipal Finances; Table 4.1 Summary of MDP Results in Municipal Finance; 5 Managing Service Provision; Table 5.1 Summary of MDP Results in Service Provision; 6 Conclusions; Appendixes; Endnotes; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews how, worldwide, nearly 3,000 municipalities have benefitted from 190 World Bank-supported MDPs over the past decade, three quarters of which achieved satisfactory outcomes.The finance dimension of MDPs-computerized accounting, revenue generation, and municipal credit-produced some of the best r
• Titolo autorizzato: Improving municipal management for cities to succeed
• ISBN: 1-282-25971-7; 9786612259715; 0-8213-8044-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454890703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II