Decentralization in Madagascar
This paper takes stock of Madagascar's first 10 years of decentralization. As it happened in many other developing countries, particularly in Africa, Madagascar's decentralization process has seen reversals, uncertainties and lack of clar...
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okr-10986-149212021-04-23T14:03:12Z Decentralization in Madagascar World Bank DECENTRALIZATION IN GOVERNMENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK DECONCENTRATION SERVICE DELIVERY REGIONAL PLANNING FISCAL ADMINISTRATION INTERGOVERNMENTAL FISCAL RELATIONS INTERGOVERNMENTAL TRANSFER OF FUNDS PUBLIC EXPENDITURES RESOURCES MOBILIZATION REVENUE MOBILIZATION COMMUNAL SETTLEMENTS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES INTERGOVERNMENTAL TAX RELATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES SOCIAL EXPENDITURES INSTITUTIONAL REFORM POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION FISCAL REFORMS MONITORING CRITERIA This paper takes stock of Madagascar's first 10 years of decentralization. As it happened in many other developing countries, particularly in Africa, Madagascar's decentralization process has seen reversals, uncertainties and lack of clarity all along. This explains why Madagascar, despite the experience with decentralization, remains a highly centralized country with only about 3-4 percent of expenditures spent below the center and with very few prerogatives decentralized to the local level. Notwithstanding the structural impediments to decentralization in poor countries, many positive lessons can be drawn from the Madagascar case, which point to the potentials of the decentralization process. This study provides a detailed analysis of local government finances and develops a methodology for measuring local financing needs (local fiscal gap methodology). Based on this analysis, the study argues that a lot can be gained from simplifying administrative arrangements and fiscal relationships. Instead of a full-blown and ambitious decentralization strategy, this book suggests a number of reforms, which would go a long way by making the current structure work better. These reforms include: (1) a full transfer of the (limited) local competencies to commune, particularly local revenue collection; (2) increasing transfers to rural communes so that per capita allocations would be the same across communes-rural and urban; and (3) assigning revenues to one level of government only, except for some very specific types of taxes (such as on natural resources). 2013-08-08T16:36:35Z 2013-08-08T16:36:35Z 2004-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/07/5114765/decentralization-madagascar 0-8213-5841-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14921 English en_US World Bank Country Study; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication Africa Madagascar |
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DECENTRALIZATION IN GOVERNMENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK DECONCENTRATION SERVICE DELIVERY REGIONAL PLANNING FISCAL ADMINISTRATION INTERGOVERNMENTAL FISCAL RELATIONS INTERGOVERNMENTAL TRANSFER OF FUNDS PUBLIC EXPENDITURES RESOURCES MOBILIZATION REVENUE MOBILIZATION COMMUNAL SETTLEMENTS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES INTERGOVERNMENTAL TAX RELATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES SOCIAL EXPENDITURES INSTITUTIONAL REFORM POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION FISCAL REFORMS MONITORING CRITERIA |
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DECENTRALIZATION IN GOVERNMENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK DECONCENTRATION SERVICE DELIVERY REGIONAL PLANNING FISCAL ADMINISTRATION INTERGOVERNMENTAL FISCAL RELATIONS INTERGOVERNMENTAL TRANSFER OF FUNDS PUBLIC EXPENDITURES RESOURCES MOBILIZATION REVENUE MOBILIZATION COMMUNAL SETTLEMENTS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES INTERGOVERNMENTAL TAX RELATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES SOCIAL EXPENDITURES INSTITUTIONAL REFORM POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION FISCAL REFORMS MONITORING CRITERIA World Bank Decentralization in Madagascar |
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This paper takes stock of
Madagascar's first 10 years of decentralization. As it
happened in many other developing countries, particularly in
Africa, Madagascar's decentralization process has seen
reversals, uncertainties and lack of clarity all along. This
explains why Madagascar, despite the experience with
decentralization, remains a highly centralized country with
only about 3-4 percent of expenditures spent below the
center and with very few prerogatives decentralized to the
local level. Notwithstanding the structural impediments to
decentralization in poor countries, many positive lessons
can be drawn from the Madagascar case, which point to the
potentials of the decentralization process. This study
provides a detailed analysis of local government finances
and develops a methodology for measuring local financing
needs (local fiscal gap methodology). Based on this
analysis, the study argues that a lot can be gained from
simplifying administrative arrangements and fiscal
relationships. Instead of a full-blown and ambitious
decentralization strategy, this book suggests a number of
reforms, which would go a long way by making the current
structure work better. These reforms include: (1) a full
transfer of the (limited) local competencies to commune,
particularly local revenue collection; (2) increasing
transfers to rural communes so that per capita allocations
would be the same across communes-rural and urban; and (3)
assigning revenues to one level of government only, except
for some very specific types of taxes (such as on natural resources). |
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Decentralization in Madagascar |
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Decentralization in Madagascar |
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Decentralization in Madagascar |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/07/5114765/decentralization-madagascar http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14921 |
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