Public Sector Decentralization

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Public Sector Decentralization is written by Jerry M. Silverman and published by World Bank Publications. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0821322796 (ISBN 10) and 9780821322796 (ISBN 13).

This paper is addressed to a broad audience of development professionals who are interested in both the substance of decentralisation issues and their impact on economic development. The paper summarises experience with alternative decentralisation arrangements and suggests a new analytical framework for assessing the impact of such arrangements on the performance of economic development programmes and projects. Consideration of alternative forms of decentralisation reveals the need to clarify and establish priorities among economic and political objectives. The potential for conflict among multiple objectives and the need to assess decentralisation policies in terms of acceptable trade-offs among those objectives summarises the importance of this paper.