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1 online resource (xii, 97 pages) : illustrations |
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A World Bank country study |
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World Bank country study.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Executive Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Today's Decentralization Agenda-Challenges and Institutional Determinants; The Legal Framework; Deconcentration and Decentralization; Control System; Regional Planning Bodies; Towards a More Service-oriented Administration; 3. Fiscal Framework; The Fiscal Gap; Expenditures; Revenues; Transfers; Improving Madagascar's Fiscal Framework; 4. Communes; Institutional Arrangements at the Commune Level; Measuring Commune Finance: Sample and Methodology |
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Commune Needs and Overall Flows of FundsCommune Revenues; Commune Expenditures; Improving Service Delivery at the Commune Level; Annexes; Annex A: Matrix of Policy Recommendations; Annex B: Distribution of Ministerial Functions; Annex C: Revenue Assignment in the 2000 and 2001 Budget; Annex D: Deconcentration of Expenditures; Annex E: The Local Financing Gap Methodology; Annex F: The Representativeness of the 232 Commune Sample; Annex G: Local Government Organigram; Annex H: Local Government Revenue Assignments; Glossary of French and Malagasy Terminology; Bibliography; TABLES |
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2.1 Administrative Parallelism2.2 Personnel and Budget Functions in the Social Sectors; 2.3 The Control Framework; 3.1 Possible Expenditure Assignments by Level of Government; 3.2 Composition of Central Government Expenditures; 3.3 Possible Revenue Assignments by Level of Government; 3.4 Revenue Assignments in Madagascar; 3.5 Combining Objectives and Design; 3.6 Transfers to Administrative Levels (in million FMG) in 2001; 3.7 Transfers to Commune Budgets (2001); 4.1 Local Financing Gaps (US per capita and % of total needs); 4.2 Sources of Financing (US per capita) |
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4.3 Revenue Items and Collection Mechanism4.4 Revenue Composition of Urban and Rural Communes (estimated); 4.5 Own Revenue by Recovery Mechanism; 4.6 Breakdown of Expenditures in Urban Communes and Communes in the Greater Antananarivo Area; 4.7 Breakdown of Recurrent Expenditures; 4.8 Breakdown of Investments; 4.9 Functional Classification-Overview; CHARTS; 2.1 Madagascar 's Territorial Administration; 3.1 Madagascar's Revenues in the International Context-Government Revenues as a Share of GDP (excluding grants) 1998 |
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3.2 Madagascar's Revenues in the International Context-Government Revenues as a Share of GDP (excluding grants) 20013.3 Shares of Recurrent Expenditures Executed Below the Center; 3.4 Social Sector Spending by Administrative Level; 3.5 Central Government Budgetary Revenue 1998-2000 (in % of GDP); 3.6 Delay of Unconditional Transfers to Rural Communes (sample of 15 communes); 4.1 Institutional Relationships at the Local Level; 4.2 Data Sources; 4.3 Gap per Sector (US per capita); 4.4 Breakdown of Total Local Revenues; 4.5 Breakdown of Total Local Taxes; 4.6 Breakdown of User Fees |
| Summary |
This paper takes stock of Madagascar's first 10 years of decentralization. As it happened in many other developing countries, particularly in Africa, Madagascar's decentralization process has seen reversals, uncertainties and lack of clarity all along. This explains why Madagascar, despite the experience with decentralization, remains a highly centralized country with only about 3-4 percent of expenditures spent below the center and with very few prerogatives decentralized to the local level. Notwithstanding the structural impediments to decentralization in poor countries, many positive lessons can be drawn from the Madagascar case, which point to the potentials of the decentralization process. This study provides a detailed analysis of local government finances and develops a methodology for measuring local financing needs (local fiscal gap methodology). Based on this analysis, the study argues that a lot can be gained from simplifying administrative arrangements and fiscal relationships. Instead of a full-blown and ambitious decentralization strategy, this book suggests a number of reforms, which would go a long way by making the current structure work better. These reforms include: (1) a full transfer of the (limited) local competencies to commune, particularly local revenue collection; (2) increasing transfers to rural communes so that per capita allocations would be the same across communes-rural and urban; and (3) assigning revenues to one level of government only, except for some very specific types of taxes (such as on natural resources) |
| Notes |
"The report has been prepared by a team consisting of Wolfgang Fengler (task team leader) [and others]"--Page ix |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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T World Bank e-Library |
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Decentralization in government -- Madagascar
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Local finance -- Madagascar
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Decentralization in government
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Local finance
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Dezentralisation
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Decentralisatie.
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Regionale economie.
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Décentralisation gouvernementale.
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Madagascar
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Madagaskar
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Madagascar.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fengler, Wolfgang, 1971-
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| LC no. |
2004042078 |
| ISBN |
0821358413 |
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9780821358412 |
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0821358421 |
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9780821358429 |
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