Title: Decentralization, local governance and 'recentralization' in Africa

Authors: Wunsch, James Stevenson

Year: 2001

Journal: Public administration and development

Volume: 21(2001)4

PAGE: 277--288

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: decentralization in government, governance, local government, budgeting, africa

Abstract: African decentralization reforms are still experiencing problems in bringing about effective local governance. Central reluctance to relinquish authority in key areas of budgeting and revenue and the complexity of organizational redesign to support decentralization explain these problems.

URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pad.185/epdf

Document type: E-article