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Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Heese, Karen |
| author2 | Abedian, Iraj |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5795 Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa Heese, Karen Abedian, Iraj Includes bibliographical references. Local government in South Africa is mandated with the delivery of basic services. This responsibility reflects the evolving role and status of subnational governments across the world. In South Africa, local government policy is underpinned by a developmental vision. The vast backlog of infrastructure that apartheid entrenched requires that considerable financial resources facilitate basic service delivery. In many other countries, inter-governmental transfers account for a far larger portion of municipal revenue than in South Africa where financial capacity is broadly assumed to be sufficient for expenditure needs. This is an inequitable assumption - for communities that do not have substantial revenue bases the current fiscal and financial system undermines equalised service delivery. Inter-governmental relations therefore require revision if municipalities are to address socio-economic inequities. Fiscal options to facilitate developmental government include a greater transfer of resources to local government, or, if the constraints of the fiscus inhibit this, transfers that primarily focus on equalisation. If this restructuring does not occur, local government will not have the financial means to ensure that decentralisation implies the optimal mechanism for development - improved financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government is therefore imperative. 2014-07-31T12:28:20Z 2014-07-31T12:28:20Z 2000 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5795 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Heese, Karen Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa |
| title_full | Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa |
| title_short | Financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in South Africa |
| title_sort | financial and fiscal facilitation of developmental local government in south africa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5795 |
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