Successful reforms need coherent approaches in which a range of stakeholders are willing to share responsibilities and resources in order to achieve the ultimate outcome of poverty reduction in developing countries. This book provides a framework to access intended outcomes generated by decentralization measures implemented in Asian and African countries. It is based on comparative analyses of different experiences of decentralization measures in six developing countries.

InhaltsangabeDecentralization and Local Governance: Introduction and Overview.- Indonesia towards Decentralization and Democracy.- Entangled Democracy, Decentralization and Lifeworld in Flores under Global Trends.- Redesigning Local Governance in India: Lessons from the Kerala Experiment.- Contrasting Experiences of Decentralization in Two States in India.- Challenges of Moving into a Devolved Polity in Sri Lanka.- Politics and Local Government in Uganda.- Possibility of Creating a Deliberative Solution in Uganda.- Democratic Decentralization in Post-Apartheid South Africa.- The Challenges of Deepening Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa.- The Balance Sheet of Decentralization in Ghana.- Potential and Limitation of Local Radio in Information Accessibility in Ghana.- Conclusions.

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