Dr. Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Dr. A. Venugopala Reddy
With increasing population and expanding demand for urban infrastructure services, the capacities of local governments in many developing and newly industrialized countries are overburdened. Adequate infrastructure is not only necessary for increasing productivity but also raising the general
quality of living.
Given the primacy of municipal finances and the importance of public service delivery for cities to become engines of economic growth, this book answers two questions: Does finance, or more specifically low expenditure, explain the state of poor service delivery? If the
answer to the first question is yes, how can urban local bodies have access to greater resources to enable them to improve their public delivery? Using case studies of four cities-Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Bangalore-that are representative of various regions in the country, this book examines
the relationship between spending and services. More specifically, it examines the role of land as a revenue-generating source in India's cities.
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Objectives, Survey of Literature, and Methodology
2. Finances and Public Service Delivery in Ahmedabad
3. Finances and Public Service Delivery in Kolkata
4. Finances and Public Service Delivery in
Jaipur
5. Finances and Public Service Delivery in Bangalore
6. Summary of Findings and Concluding Remarks
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Kala Seetharam Sridhar is Senior Research Fellow at the Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore. A. Venugopala Reddy is Research Officer, also at the Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore.
India Infrastructure Report 2009 - 3i Network
Handbook of Urbanization in India - Sivaramakrishnan, Kundu and Singh
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