How India's small towns live (or die): making sense of municipal finances/
Paromita Shastri
- New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2011.
- 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
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Municipal finance Small cities Intergovernmental fiscal relations Municipal government Urbanization