Strengthening local government administration and accelerating local development /
edited by Perfecto L. Padilla
- Quezon City, Philippines : Local Government Center, College of Public Administration, c1992
- 433 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. History and evolution of Philippine local government and administration -- Chapter 3. Local government: organization , powers and functions, relation with central government -- Chapter 4. Local government reorganization for greater administrative efficiency -- Chapter 5. Increasing the financial capacity of local governments -- Chapter 7. Revitalizing the local civil service -- Chapter 8. Decentralization: concept as a local development strategy -- Chapter 9. Need for an inception of a more substantive decentralization and local autonomy -- 10. Decentralization and administrative capability of local governments -- Chapter 11. Regional autonomy in Muslim Mindanao -- Chapter 12. The continuing quest for regional autonomy in the cordilleras -- Chapter 13. Local administration, local development and the depopulated areas -- Chapter 14. Pagkain ng bayan: an evaluation of a joint national-local development project -- Chapter 15. The Rise and increasing recognition of nongovernmental organizations -- Chapter 16. Nongovernmental organization in local government: focus on the cooperative -- Chapter 17. Local government-private consultancy firm partnership: the agora complex in San Juan -- Chapter 18. Organization of the leagues of local authorities.
This volume represents an effort to consolidate into one book piece writings which are mainly derived from research studies on distinct but inter-related, subject fields--local government and administration, political decentralization , and local development.