| Economic Analysis of Decentralisation in Rural Ghana Contributor(s): Asante, Felix Ankomah (Author), Heidhues, Franz (Editor), Braun, Joachim (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820460664 ISBN-13: 9780820460666 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Dewey: 307.141 |
| LCCN: 2003047079 |
| Series: Development Economics and Policy, |
| Physical Information: 150 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien. Many countries around the world have been attempting - for several reasons and with various degrees of intention and success - to create or strengthen local governments in recent years. Ghana is one of these countries and since 1998 has been going through a decentralisation process, that is moving decision-making from the national (center) to the district and community levels - a bottom up approach. Many rationales for decentralisation may be discerned in the literature and in practice. The most common theoretical rationales for decentralisation are: to attain allocative efficiency in the face of different local preferences for public goods and services and equity and distributional concerns - poverty reduction. In this context, this study performs an economic analysis of decentralisation in rural Ghana specifically addressing the following issues: has the decentralisation helped in the delivery of public goods and services and to what extent has the access to public goods and services helped to reduce poverty? Education, health and water were the public goods and services studied. Quantitative and qualitative techniques are used to address theses issues. Contents: Conceptual framework and theory of decentralisation - Decentralisation, provision of public goods and services and incidence of poverty in Ghana - Decentralisation policy and implications for provision and efficiency of social services - Decentralisation and poverty reduction. |
