Title: Strengthening Local Service Delivery in the Philippines: The Use of Political Economy to Craft Bank Operational Strategies
Abstract: No AccessJan 2014Strengthening Local Service Delivery in the Philippines: The Use of Political Economy to Craft Bank Operational StrategiesAuthors/Editors: Yasuhiko MatsudaYasuhiko MatsudaSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0121-1_ch9AboutView ChaptersFull TextPDF (1.3 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: Discusses the uneven quality of local services across local government units (LGUs) in the Philippines and presents results of a World Bank political economy analysis (PEA) of 2011 which examined the incentives LGUs face for providing adequate road and health services. Findings pointed to the widely recognized problem of design flaws in revenue and expenditure assignments in the Local Government Code (LGC), and revealed that politicians’ incentives were not aligned directly with objective needs of communities. 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