Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent
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Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent

Lessons from Ethiopia

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eBook - PDF

Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent

Lessons from Ethiopia

About this book

Ethiopia, like most developing countries, has opted to deliver services such as basic education, primary health care, agricultural extension advice, water, and rural roads through a highly decentralized system (Manor 1999; Treisman 2007). That choice is based on several decades of theoretical analysis examining how a decentralized government might respond better to diverse local needs and provide public goods more efficiently than a highly centralized government. Ethiopia primarily manages the delivery of basic services at the woreda (district) level. Those services are financed predominantly through intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFTs) from the federal to the regional and then the woreda administrations, although some woredas raise a small amount of revenue to support local services. Since 2006, development partners and the government have cofinanced block grants for decentralized services through the Promoting Basic Services (PBS) Program. Aside from funding the delivery of services, the program supports measures to improve the quality of services and local governments capacity to deliver them by strengthening accountability and citizen voice.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. About the Authors
  6. Executive Summary
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction and Background
  9. Chapter 1 Conceptual Framework and Methodology
  10. Chapter 2 Citizen Direct Voice and Accountability
  11. Chapter 3 Effectiveness of Woreda Block Grant Spending on Education, Health, and Agriculture
  12. Chapter 4 How Equitable Is Decentralized Spending at the Woreda Level?
  13. Chapter 5 The Federal System’s Role in Helping Lagging Areas and Groups
  14. Conclusions and Recommendations
  15. Appendix A Detailed Methodology and Data Sources
  16. Appendix B Financial Transparency and Social Accountability under the PBS Program
  17. Appendix C The Center and the Periphery in Ethiopia: The Evolution of Today’s Federal State
  18. Appendix D Detailed Regression Results
  19. Bibliography
  20. Boxes
  21. Figures
  22. Tables
  23. Back Cover