Promoting Good Governance with Social Funds and Decentralization

Bad governance undermines development. Two important types of World Bank support for local governance are social funds and broadly based support for governments committed to decentralizing responsibility and power to local governments and other local institutions. But there are concerns that these two approaches, which address different elements of governance, sometimes work at cross-purposes. A study was therefore commissioned to examine the interaction between social funds and decentralization in Bolivia and Honduras (advanced decentralization), Peru and Zimbabwe (some decentralization), and Cambodia, Malawi, and Zambia (little or no decentralization). This Note is based on the findings of the study.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Parker, Andrew
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2001-01
Subjects:	GOVERNANCE, SOCIAL FUNDS, DECENTRALIZATION, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL COMMUNITIES ACCOUNTABILITY, BASIC SERVICES, CAPACITY BUILDING, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS, COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, CORRUPTION, DECENTRALIZATION REFORMS, DECISIONMAKING, DIRECT FINANCING, ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, FISCAL, GOOD GOVERNANCE, GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS, LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, LOCAL TAXES, MUNICIPAL FINANCE, NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, NATIONS, POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION, PRESIDENCY, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, PRIVATE SECTOR, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC SECTOR, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SUBVERSION,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/2011700/promoting-good-governance-social-funds-decentralization https://hdl.handle.net/10986/11405
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