Local Government Finance Reform in Developing Countries

1. An Overview of Local Government Finance Reform in Tanzania
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Part I. The Assignment of Expenditure Responsibilities

2. The Assignment of Expenditure Responsibilities to the Local Government Level
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

3. The Management of Local Government Finances: Local Planning, Budgeting, and Service Delivery
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Part II. The Revenue Assignment

4. Local Government Taxes in Tanzania: Weaknesses of the Current System of Local Government Revenues
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

5. The Proposed Transformation of the Local Government Revenue System in Tanzania
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Part III. Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers

6. Principles for Developing a Sound Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer System
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

7. Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in Tanzania: An Assessment of the Previous System of Local Government Allocations
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

8. The New System of Formula-based Grants in Tanzania
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Part IV. Local Government Borrowing

9. The Role of Local Government Borrowing in Tanzania’s System of Local Government Finance
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Part V. Moving Forward and Lessons

10. Moving Forward: Local Government Finance and Tanzania’s Poverty Reduction Strategy
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

11. Lessons from Tanzania’s Local Government Finance Reform Experience
Jameson Boex, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Avainsanat: Economics, Development Economics, International Economics, Political Economy, Political Science