TY - BOOK AU - Padilla, Perfecto L. TI - Strengthening local government administration and accelerating local development SN - 9718567038 AV - JS 7322 .L8 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - Quezon City, Philippines PB - Local Government Center, College of Public Administration KW - DECENTRALIZATION N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -