Participatory Rural Appraisal: Methods and Applications in Rural Planning (Essays in Honour of Robert Chambers) (Studies in Rural Participation Series-5)

by Amitava Mukherjee

Overview

Municipal finance deals with only three of the basic problems of public finance, namely allocation, development and redistribution (the fourth being stabilisation). The present book makes a humble attempt to examine the extent to which these problems have been solved by the finances of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. It analyses the finances of the corporation with emphasis on financial administration, for a period of twenty-one years and compares them with those of the Municipal Corporations of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. A special feature of the book is the minute examination of a large number of cases reported by the Municipal Chief Auditor in his annual reports. The book should be very useful for councillors and officials of municipal corporations as it contains valuable suggestions and guidelines. It may be painful reading for the common citizen as it tells a woeful tale of the frittering away of its scarce resources by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354395413
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	405
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Prof. Amitava Mukherjee had a distinguished academic career, educated at Ranchi University, Ranchi, India, William Marsh Rice University, Houston, University of South Florida, Tampa. Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, USA; the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. Dr. Mukherjee held the Chair in Economics and Planning, and co-ordinated the Faculty in the Centre for Micro-Planning&Regional Studies at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie; was Advisor and Project Head of the Planning Commission Project on decentralized planning. He has been a consultant to various international and UN agencies including FAO, Rome; UNDP and UNESCAP. He is currently the Chief Technical Advisor, Pro-Poor Public Private Partnership, United Nations' Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok. He is a life member of the Indian Econometric Society, the Regional Science Association of India, the Indian Economic Association, and of the Royal Economic Society, England. Dr. Mukherjee has numerous papers and over thirty books to his credit. His contribution to decentralized planning and participatory development is internationally recognized.