Indonesia Economic Quarterly, December 2017 : Decentralization that Delivers
The Indonesian economy strengthened modestly in third quarter(Q3). Economic growth was supported by higher commodity prices, stronger global growth, rebounding international trade, and relatively accommodative monetary and financial conditions. At...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/377621523883164713/Indonesia-economic-quarterly-decentralization-that-delivers http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29726 |
| Summary: | The Indonesian economy strengthened
modestly in third quarter(Q3). Economic growth was supported
by higher commodity prices, stronger global growth,
rebounding international trade, and relatively accommodative
monetary and financial conditions. At the same time,
domestic conditions improved, with tentative green shoots in
private consumption and stronger domestic demand overall.
This article addresses three main questions: (i) what
happened to local service delivery during decentralization?
(ii) how do we move the needle on local government
performance in terms of provision of local services? and
(iii) what design mechanisms can incentivize local leaders
and sub-national governments to improve local service
delivery? The authors offer three key policy
recommendations to help align incentives to promote service
delivery performance by local leaders and public officials:
i) implementing good practices for evaluating local
government performance; ii) embedding results-orientation
into intergovernmental fiscal transfers;l and iii) use
transparent and comparative local government performance
data to stimulate citizen engagement. |
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