Decentralization, Democracy and Development: Recent Experience from Sierra Leone

by Yongmei Zhou

The question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves government effectiveness is hotly debated among researchers and policy makers. Decentralization, Democracy, and Development contributes to the empirical literature on decentralization and the debate on whether it is a viable and desirable state-building strategy for post-conflict countries. This book is a collection of eight papers written by nine authors who were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821379992
• ISBN13: 9780821379998
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.8"