Decentralization in the Philippines After Ten Years — What Have We Learned?

Diokno, Benjamin E

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“…The jurisdictional fragmentation model is the choice for governing metropolitan areas in many low-income and middle-income countries, including some in the Asia-Pacific region. The sixteen cities and one municipality in metropolitan Manila are responsible for those services whose benefits are thought to be contained within local boundaries (World Bank, 2017;Manasan, 2009, p. 338;Diokno, 2009). Each is entitled to levy a property tax and a local sales tax, and they are self-governed.…”

Section: Jurisdictional Fragmentationmentioning

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Metropolitan City Finances in the Asia and Pacific Region: Issues, Problems and Reform Options

Bahl¹

2018

ESCAP Financing for Development Series

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Section: Jurisdictional Fragmentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metropolitan City Finances in the Asia and Pacific Region: Issues, Problems and Reform Options

Bahl¹

2018

ESCAP Financing for Development Series

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“…Upon assuming power, President Aquino promised a broad public sector reform package including the devolution of political and administrative authority to local governments (Diokno 2003;Hutchcroft 2004) But slowly, the political landscape began to change with the President´s relentless, indefatigable campaign of tapping the grass roots, of linking with the rural folk and NGOs.…”

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“…Before the passage of the 1991 LGC, the head of the House of Representatives, Speaker Ramon V. Mitra and the Senate President, Jovito R. Salonga were both planning to run for president in the 1992 elections. As a result, there was political grandstanding between the two which resulted in a higher than proposed IRA (Diokno 2003), from the initial proposal of a maximum of 25% to a 40% share of internal revenues. The final result was a staggered annual increase in the IRA from 30% during the first year of implementation to 40% for the third year after.…”

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Ripe for a Big Bang? Assessing the Political Feasibility of Legislative Reforms in the Philippines' Local Government Code

Matsuda¹

2011

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…The transfer of resources from the central government to the LGUs is done through the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA), which has been questioned for its inadequacy and predisposition to corruption (Diokno, 2009). Specifically, central governments should transfer 40% of the revenues collected three years before the year of the distribution to the LGUs (Guevara, 2004).…”

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“…Others claim that decentralization negatively affected resource allocation. In the end, provinces received substantially reduced resources despite having the most government functions (Diokno, 2009). Further, decentralization increased government inequities with some LGUs receiving less resources for local income generation and weaker ties at the national level than other LGUs (Langran, 2011).…”

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Health systems strengthening in global and national contexts

Macarayan¹

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Despite advances in medical research, the burden of disease in most countries remains high.Further, health inequalities continue to grow and emerging infectious diseases are still wreaking havoc across countries. To respond to contemporary public health challenges, a new systems thinking paradigm has emerged that highlighted a holistic approach towards health systems, resulting to an emerging field -health policy and systems research (HPSR). HPSR seeks to understand and enhance how societies organize themselves in achieving collective health goals, and how different actors interact in the policy and implementation processes. However, research gaps remain particularly in applying this paradigm to strengthen health systems performance across countries. This thesis contributes to HPSR by: a. examining the underlying concepts of health systems strengthening; b. determining how health systems contribute to better health outcomes, particularly on reducing infant mortality rates and improving life expectancies at birth, and c. understanding mechanisms to use findings from health systems strengthening assessments to inform global and national-level health policymaking processes.In 2015, 40% of the Global Fund investments go toward health systems strengthening (HSS). The global health threats posed by recent viral epidemics such as Ebola and Zika even further increased calls to invest in and develop better health systems. These health systems investments were also in most cases subjected to performance-based funding, but contrary to other monitoring and evaluation methods used for other health programs, health systems monitoring and evaluation demand a new analytical frame due to its complexity, along with the very different country capacities, uneven data sources and data availability and quality, including the varied contexts that drive priority areas for health systems. As such, monitoring these initiatives remain to be highly contentious despite its importance to inform health resource allocation. In particular, studies often highlighted different conceptual and methodological challenges associated with health systems assessments worldwide.To address these issues, I first introduced a new HSS framework based on existing monitoring and evaluation frameworks collected from my field experience, systematic reviews, and thematic analyses of existing HSS documents and database. Based on the developed HSS framework, existing HSS indicators were also examined to guide further analysis. Further, I quantitatively assessed health systems performance using a new composite indicator based on previous efforts for a global health systems performance index. To do this index, I used data collected from the Demographic Health Surveys, the World Bank Indicators, and the World Health Organisation ii (WHO) Global Health Surveys. In particular, I used fixed-effects and random-effects regression analyses to determine how each health system characteristic affects health outcomes, particularly infant mortality rates and life expectan...

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Decentralization in the Philippines After Ten Years — What Have We Learned?

Cited by 7 publications

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Metropolitan City Finances in the Asia and Pacific Region: Issues, Problems and Reform Options

Metropolitan City Finances in the Asia and Pacific Region: Issues, Problems and Reform Options

Ripe for a Big Bang? Assessing the Political Feasibility of Legislative Reforms in the Philippines' Local Government Code

Health systems strengthening in global and national contexts

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