Finance and the effective delivery of services at the local level, particularly for the poor, is a critical issue for local governments around the world particularly as powers and responsibilities are increasingly decentralized to municipal governments. 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 examples from elsewhere. Emphasis is given to how those innovations and improvements were developed and...
Finance and the effective delivery of services at the local level, particularly for the poor, is a critical issue for local governments around the wor...