Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar
Myanmar’s decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly challenging backdrop. Myanmar is a country with considerable geographic and socialdiversity and a history of isolation, conflict and unde...
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okr-10986-331182021-05-25T09:31:28Z Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar World Bank Group DECENTRALIZATION PUBLIC SPENDING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENT MUNICIPAL FINANCE SUBNATIONAL EXPENDITURE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT URBAN TRANSPORT E-GOVERNMENT Myanmar’s decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly challenging backdrop. Myanmar is a country with considerable geographic and socialdiversity and a history of isolation, conflict and underdevelopment. Decades of civil conflict and tight military rule have marked Myanmar’s political, social and economic life since its independence from British rule in 1948, and left a host of historical institutional legacies including underrepresentation of women, civil service norms that prioritize compliance over performance, bureaucratic silos and weak public investment management, that still impact the country today. Political and economic transitions, begun in 2011, have promoted growth and improved welfare outcomes, though the benefits have not been equally shared with all groups or geographic areas. There remain extreme variations in the provision and quality of public infrastructure and services, reflected in large disparities per capita income and humandevelopment outcomes. These inequalities are widening, economic growth is spatially concentratedin the growth poles of Yangon and Mandalay, while rural and remote areas, such as those on the Shanplateau, are isolated from the centers of growth. The Myanmar subnational PER examines Myanmar’s nascent subnational institutions, focusing on governance, union-local administrative and fiscal relations and service delivery from a local perspective. The aim is to identify pragmatic and practicable policy options for incrementally strengthening the institutional capacity and inclusiveness of subnational governments within the confines of the current constitution. While political debate on the future shape of a federal Myanmar continues, reforming local governance institutions, within the considerable space available in the current constitution, as suggested throughout the PER, is an important way to support “federalism from below”, promoting a more sustainable, inclusive and accountable system of governance and fiscal management that better reflects Myanmar’s considerable social and economic heterogeneity. 2020-01-02T19:18:48Z 2020-01-02T19:18:48Z 2019-12-31 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/400111577821333322/Subnational-Public-Expenditure-Review-2019-Fostering-Decentralization-in-Myanmar http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33118 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Public Expenditure Review East Asia and Pacific Myanmar |
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Myanmar’s decentralization of
governance, financing and service delivery is taking place
against aparticularly challenging backdrop. Myanmar is a
country with considerable geographic and socialdiversity and
a history of isolation, conflict and underdevelopment.
Decades of civil conflict and tight military rule have
marked Myanmar’s political, social and economic life since
its independence from British rule in 1948, and left a host
of historical institutional legacies including
underrepresentation of women, civil service norms that
prioritize compliance over performance, bureaucratic silos
and weak public investment management, that still impact the
country today. Political and economic transitions, begun in
2011, have promoted growth and improved welfare outcomes,
though the benefits have not been equally shared with all
groups or geographic areas. There remain extreme variations
in the provision and quality of public infrastructure and
services, reflected in large disparities per capita income
and humandevelopment outcomes. These inequalities are
widening, economic growth is spatially concentratedin the
growth poles of Yangon and Mandalay, while rural and remote
areas, such as those on the Shanplateau, are isolated from
the centers of growth. The Myanmar subnational PER examines
Myanmar’s nascent subnational institutions, focusing on
governance, union-local administrative and fiscal relations
and service delivery from a local perspective. The aim is to
identify pragmatic and practicable policy options for
incrementally strengthening the institutional capacity and
inclusiveness of subnational governments within the confines
of the current constitution. While political debate on the
future shape of a federal Myanmar continues, reforming local
governance institutions, within the considerable space
available in the current constitution, as suggested
throughout the PER, is an important way to support
“federalism from below”, promoting a more sustainable,
inclusive and accountable system of governance and fiscal
management that better reflects Myanmar’s considerable
social and economic heterogeneity. |
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Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar |
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Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar |
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Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar |
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Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar |
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Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar |
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subnational public expenditure review 2019 : fostering decentralization in myanmar |
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