Evolving intergovernmental relations for effective development in the context of regionalization /

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Author / Creator:Pamfil, Claudia.
Imprint:Budapest : Local Geovernment and Public Service Initiative, Open Society Institute, 2003.
Description:110 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:LGI fellowship series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5056739
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Other authors / contributors:Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative.
ISBN:9639419567
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Development
  • Globalization
  • Regionalization
  • Urbanization
  • Toward a Correlated Strategy
  • 1.. Effective Development
  • Development Assessment
  • Human Development
  • Environmental Degradation
  • Income Inequality and Volatility
  • External Factors
  • Principles of Effective Development
  • Development Priorities
  • Human Capital
  • Natural Capital
  • Dealing with Globalization
  • Improving Governance and Controlling Corruption
  • Conclusions--Focus on Quality
  • Key Points
  • 2.. Regionalization
  • The Aims of Regionalization
  • Forms of Regionalization
  • Regional Decentralization
  • Political Regionalization (Institutional Regionalism)
  • Regionalization without Creating a Regional Level
  • Federal States and Regionalization
  • Obstacles to Regionalization
  • The Consequences of Regionalization--Intergovernmental Relations
  • Key Points
  • 3.. Planning for Effective Development
  • General Methodological Approaches for Development Strategies
  • Strategic Participatory Planning
  • Planning a Chaordic System
  • Testing the Strategy
  • Anticipation and Flexibility
  • Maintaining Adaptibility to Change
  • Implications for Policy Development
  • Key Points
  • 4.. Functions and Roles in Economic Development
  • Regulatory Function
  • The Stabilization Function
  • The Distribution Function
  • The Main Roles of Economic Development Actors
  • National Government
  • Local Governments
  • Economic Development Organizations
  • Partnership Networks
  • Key Points
  • 5.. Intergovernmental Relations' Impact on Development
  • Centralized Control and Its Regional Impact
  • Decentralization of Fiscal Policy
  • Intergovernmental Relations Regarding Revenues
  • Intergovernmental Relations Regarding Expenditures
  • Intergovernmental Transfers
  • Sub-National Borrowing
  • Impact on Regional Financing
  • Redistribution Effects on Individual Economic Segment
  • Key Points
  • References and Bibliography
  • Index
  • Biography