Decentralization in South Asia

Decentralization in South Asia offers a promise for better service delivery and accountability to local communities. Countries in South Asia have moved forward with political decentralization. Fiscal and administrative decentralization, however, still lag behind…
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	Public Service Delivery One of potential impacts of decentralization is improved service delivery...
	Community Driven Development Decentralization and Community Driven Development (CDD) are closely linked. CDD aims to empower communities by giving control of development decisions and resources to local communities...
	Fiscal Decentralization Fiscal decentralization is essentially the transfer of expenditure responsibilities and revenue assignments to local government...
	Potential Impacts Decentralization offers promises, but also involves some risks...

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