Funding Local Government: Use (and Abuse) of Peru's Canon System

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
While decentralisation, properly understood, implies that sub-national government involves devolu-tion of authority over revenues, recent experience from Peru suggests that the canon system tends to create perverse incentives in encouraging open and democratic government at the local level. This is particularly the case in regions such as Cusco, which benefit disproportionately from this system. Examination of experiences in four provinces of Cusco shows how – in the absence of a robust civil society – excessive funding tends to encourage clientelism and corruption rather than accountable and transparent administration.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Bulletin of Latin American research (Online), issn : 1470-9856, 2014, vol. 33, n°. 4, p. 452-467, nombre de pages : 16

Date :
2014

Identifiants :
eurl : http://www.wiley.com, doi : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/blar.12174

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Oxford, Blackwell