The past four decades have seen an international movement toward decentralization. As
part of this process, subnational tiers of government (state and local) have been gaining …

1.1 Fiscal decentralization: International comparisons for the 2000s 11 3.1 Basic urban and
institutional profiles 59 3.2 Levels of government and administration 61 3.3 Decentralization …

" Good local governance" reflects the dual functions of local government. On the one hand,
democratic regimes gain input legitimacy by responsiveness and by being inclusive towards …

Abstract Solid Waste Management (SWM) as a subject has been extensively studied but
taking the municipal authority as the focal point and using the Ecological Modernisation …

Financing the cities has been assuming importance in the recent past, especially in the
developing countries like India, which have been becoming rapidly urbanised. For a long …

The issue of revenue allocation remains very volatile and constitutes a major source of
political and governmental tension in Nigeria. This paper examines the revenue allocation …

While literature indicates that municipal rat management approaches are often
unsuccessful, a lack of research comparing strategies makes the breadth of opportunities …

The concept of autonomous local government enjoying powers that directly emanate from a
constitution is unknown to many federations; however, recent developments suggest an …

The paper examines the nature of local government autonomy of Brazil and Nigeria and the
reasons for the failure of local government autonomy in these countries. Study adopted …

Nigeria struggles to establish and sustain cooperative, interdependent state-local
intergovernmental relations (IGR) by providing for the powers and rights of local …