Decentralization in Madagascar

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 97 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm
• Disciplina: 352.2/83
• Soggetto topico: Decentralization in government - Madagascar; Bureaucracy - Madagascar
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Executive Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Today's Decentralization Agenda-Challenges and Institutional Determinants; The Legal Framework; Deconcentration and Decentralization; Control System; Regional Planning Bodies; Towards a More Service-oriented Administration; 3. Fiscal Framework; The Fiscal Gap; Expenditures; Revenues; Transfers; Improving Madagascar's Fiscal Framework; 4. Communes; Institutional Arrangements at the Commune Level; Measuring Commune Finance: Sample and Methodology ; Commune Needs and Overall Flows of FundsCommune Revenues; Commune Expenditures; Improving Service Delivery at the Commune Level; Annexes; Annex A: Matrix of Policy Recommendations; Annex B: Distribution of Ministerial Functions; Annex C: Revenue Assignment in the 2000 and 2001 Budget; Annex D: Deconcentration of Expenditures; Annex E: The Local Financing Gap Methodology; Annex F: The Representativeness of the 232 Commune Sample; Annex G: Local Government Organigram; Annex H: Local Government Revenue Assignments; Glossary of French and Malagasy Terminology; Bibliography; TABLES ; 2.1 Administrative Parallelism2.2 Personnel and Budget Functions in the Social Sectors; 2.3 The Control Framework; 3.1 Possible Expenditure Assignments by Level of Government; 3.2 Composition of Central Government Expenditures; 3.3 Possible Revenue Assignments by Level of Government; 3.4 Revenue Assignments in Madagascar; 3.5 Combining Objectives and Design; 3.6 Transfers to Administrative Levels (in million FMG) in 2001; 3.7 Transfers to Commune Budgets (2001); 4.1 Local Financing Gaps (US per capita and % of total needs); 4.2 Sources of Financing (US per capita) ; 4.3 Revenue Items and Collection Mechanism4.4 Revenue Composition of Urban and Rural Communes (estimated); 4.5 Own Revenue by Recovery Mechanism; 4.6 Breakdown of Expenditures in Urban Communes and Communes in the Greater Antananarivo Area; 4.7 Breakdown of Recurrent Expenditures; 4.8 Breakdown of Investments; 4.9 Functional Classification-Overview; CHARTS; 2.1 Madagascar 's Territorial Administration; 3.1 Madagascar's Revenues in the International Context-Government Revenues as a Share of GDP (excluding grants) 1998 ; 3.2 Madagascar's Revenues in the International Context-Government Revenues as a Share of GDP (excluding grants) 20013.3 Shares of Recurrent Expenditures Executed Below the Center; 3.4 Social Sector Spending by Administrative Level; 3.5 Central Government Budgetary Revenue 1998-2000 (in % of GDP); 3.6 Delay of Unconditional Transfers to Rural Communes (sample of 15 communes); 4.1 Institutional Relationships at the Local Level; 4.2 Data Sources; 4.3 Gap per Sector (US per capita); 4.4 Breakdown of Total Local Revenues; 4.5 Breakdown of Total Local Taxes; 4.6 Breakdown of User Fees ; 4.7 Breakdown of Administrative Fees
• Sommario/riassunto: Decentralization faces many constraints in poor countries like Madagascar, however many positive lessons can be drawn from the Madagascar case which point to the potentials of the decentralization process.. As has happened in many other developing countries, particularly in Africa, Madagascar's decentralization process has seen reversals, uncertainties and lack of clarity all along. This explains why Madagascar, despite the experience with decentralization, remains a highly centralized country with only about 3-4 per cent of expenditures spent below the center and with very few prerogatives decentralized to the local level. Decentralization in Madagascar identifies some of the constraints, such as the structural centralization of public finances, weak capacity at the local level and inappropriate institutional frameworks. It argues that a lot can be gained from simplifying administrative arrangements and fiscal relationships. These recommendations are based on a detailed empirical analysis of more than 300 local governments' budgets and also applies a methodology for measuring local financing needs ("local financing gap").
• Titolo autorizzato: Decentralization in Madagascar
• ISBN: 1-280-08472-3; 9786610084722; 1-4175-3426-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958302403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank country study.