Cruz, Rafael
The Local Alternative
1. Introduction
Rafael Cruz, Carlos Pineda Mannheim, Caroline Pöschl
Part I. Decentralization and Local Economic Development
2. Exploring Conditions for Local Economic Development in Decentralized Systems of Government
Tim Campbell
3. The Experience of Decentralization and Local Development in Latin America
Rafael Cruz
4. Alternative Decentralization Models and the Chilean Experience
Mario Marcel
Part II. Local Management
5. Mississauga, Canada: From a Small Community to a Dynamic Urban Center
Hazel McCallion
6. Washington, DC: Restoring the Capital of the United States
Anthony Williams
7. Catalonia: Overcoming Budgetary Limits with Public-Private Partnership and Performance-Based Budgeting
Salvador Maluquer I Amorôs, Anna Tarrach I Colls
8. Revitalizing Urban Centers
Mauricio Silva, Roberto Chávez
Part III. Macroeconomic Impact
9. Decentralization and Macroeconomic Control
Ernesto Stein
10. Lessons from the Argentinean Case of the 1990s
Roberto Lavagna
11. Fiscal Decentralization and Macroeconomic Performance
Anwar Shah
Part IV. Subnational Financing
12. The Political Economy of Decentralization and Good Governance in Latin America
Ehtisham Ahmad, Mercedes García-Escribano
13. Financing and Public Services in Belo Horizonte
Júlio Ribeiro Pires, Álvaro Pio Júnior
14. Reforming Mexico’s Fiscal Federalism
José Antonio González Anaya
15. Subnational Entity Credit-Risk Ratings
Victor Manuel Herrera, Daniela Brandazza, Fabiola Ortíz
16. Structural Funds for Regional Development in the European Union
Rosa Cobo Mayoral
Part V. Competitiveness and Globalization
17. Regional Systems of Innovation in Latin America
Juan Carlos Navarro
18. Doing Business: How to Improve Local Competitiveness
Fernanda Almeida
19. Decentralization, Competitiveness, and Globalization: Opportunities and Challenges
Eduardo Wiesner
Part VI. Local Community Participation
20. Decentralization in Colombia and the Transformation of Bogotá
Jaime Castro
21. The Private Sector as a Promoter of Citizen Control in Colombia
María Fernanda Campo
22. Decentralization and Governance: From Authoritarianism to National Dialogue in Bolivia
Ronald MacLean Abaroa
Keywords: Economics, Development Economics, International Economics, International Relations, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Political Science
- Editor
- Cruz, Rafael
- Mannheim, Carlos Pineda
- Pöschl, Caroline
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 326 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230119642
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-11176-9