Improving municipal management for cities to succeed : an IEG special study.
Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This boo...
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| Corporate Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
World Bank,
2009
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| Series: | World Bank e-Library.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews how, worldwide, nearly 3,000 municipalities have benefitted from 190 World Bank-supported MDPs over the past decade, three quarters of which achieved satisfactory outcomes. The finance dimension of MDPs--computerized accounting, revenue generation, and municipal credit--produced some of the best r. |
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| Item Description: | "IEG, World Bank; IFC; MIGA." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 103 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780821380444 0821380443 0821380435 9780821380437 1282259717 9781282259713 9786612259715 661225971X |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
