Municipalities and finance : a sourcebook for capacity building

Municipalities and finance : a sourcebook for capacity building / Ian Blore, Nick Devas, Richard Slater.

Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level. In many countries decentralisation has brought the issue of municipal finance to the fore. This sourcebook provides a framework for analysing municip...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blore, Ian
Other Authors: Devas, Nick, Slater, R. P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2004.
Series:Municipal capacity building series.
Subjects:
Municipal finance > Developing countries.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Municipal finance
Developing countries
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a strategic framework for municipal capacity building in finance
  • Diagnosing current capacity
  • Focusing financial goals
  • Enhancing tax revenues
  • Exploiting charges
  • Towards better budgeting
  • Controlling costs
  • Accounting reform
  • Finance for investment
  • Framework for action.

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