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Decentralization and Good Governance

Decentralization and Good Governance

Besfat Dejen Engdaw
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781799864714|ISBN10: 1799864715|EISBN13: 9781799864721
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6471-4.ch015
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Engdaw, Besfat Dejen. "Decentralization and Good Governance." Handbook of Research on Nurturing Industrial Economy for Africa’s Development, edited by Frederick Muyia Nafukho and Alexander Boniface Makulilo, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 281-304. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6471-4.ch015

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Engdaw, B. D. (2021). Decentralization and Good Governance. In F. Nafukho & A. Boniface Makulilo (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Nurturing Industrial Economy for Africa’s Development (pp. 281-304). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6471-4.ch015

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Engdaw, Besfat Dejen. "Decentralization and Good Governance." In Handbook of Research on Nurturing Industrial Economy for Africa’s Development, edited by Frederick Muyia Nafukho and Alexander Boniface Makulilo, 281-304. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6471-4.ch015

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Abstract

Decentralization and good governance are policy instruments whereby the world in general and African in particular have pursued it for the past 40 and 50 years. Despite empirical studies not yet being conclusive, decentralization helps to improve good governance. Decentralization and good governance are brought into Africa following the beginning and end of structural reforms, to bring economic development, respectively. The chapter has six parts. The first part deals with the introduction and background of good governance and decentralization. The second part highlights the meanings or concepts and elements of good governance, and issues and concepts related to decentralization. The third part insights the relationship between decentralization and good governance. The fourth part gives some highlights about decentralization and good governance in Africa, and when and why decentralization has been introduced among African nations. The fifth part investigates the relationship between decentralization, good governance, and economic development; and the last part provides conclusion.

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