Promoting Good Governance with Social Funds and Decentralization

Parker, Andrew

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: GOVERNANCE;    SOCIAL FUNDS;    DECENTRALIZATION;    LOCAL GOVERNMENT;    LOCAL COMMUNITIES ACCOUNTABILITY;   

RP-ID  :  22083

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Bad governance undermines development.Two important types of World Bank support for localgovernance are social funds and broadly based support forgovernments committed to decentralizing responsibility andpower to local governments and other local institutions. Butthere are concerns that these two approaches, which addressdifferent elements of governance, sometimes work atcross-purposes. A study was therefore commissioned toexamine the interaction between social funds anddecentralization in Bolivia and Honduras (advanceddecentralization), Peru and Zimbabwe (somedecentralization), and Cambodia, Malawi, and Zambia (littleor no decentralization). This Note is based on the findingsof the study.