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Shastri Paromita

How India's small towns live or die : Making sense of muncipal finances - New Delhi Academic Foundation 2011 - 180p

Contents:
List of Tables, Figures and Annexure;
Foreword;
Introduction;
1. Will India Miss the Global Bus? Urbanisation and its Demands on Local Bodies;
2. A Constitutional Dependence: Local Bodies in Search of Space in India's Fiscal Federalism;
3. Devolving Neither Money Nor Power: The Role of SFCs in Strengthening Urban Local Bodies;
4. Handicapped by Birth: Weak Revenues and Fiscal Dependence of Municipal Bodies;
5. Neglecting Development: Spending Woes of Municipal Bodies

6. Developing as Growth Engines: Urban Reform

and the Role of Municipal Bodies


7. Beyond the Fiscal Package: Local Governments

as Executive Stakeholders


References and Further Reading


Annexures.

ISBN: 9788171888344

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Muncipal Finance - India2. Inter Govemental Fiscal Relations 3. Small Cities - India

Dewey Class. No.: 336.01 SHA