1. Perspectives on Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing and Transitional Countries – Christopher J. Rees and Farhad Hossain 2. Digitized Government in Worldwide Municipalities between 2003 and 2007 – Donald J. Calista, James Melitski, Marc Holzer and Aroon Manoharan 3. Choosing between Centralized and Decentralized Models of Tax Administration – Jorge Martinez-Vasquez and Andrey Timofeev 4. The Past, Present, and Future of Decentralisation in Africa: A Comparative Case Study of Local Government Development Trajectories of Ghana and Uganda – Nicholas Awortwi 5. Challenges of Making Donor-Driven Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa Sustainable: Some Experiences from Ghana – Antwi Kwabena Barina and Analoui Farhad 6. Indonesian Decentralization: Accountability Deferred – Blane D. Lewis 7. Decentralization and Local Governance in Kazakhstan – Shahjahan H. Bhuiyan 8. Decentralizing Local Governance in Thailand: Contemporary Trends and Challenges – M. Shamsul Haque 9. Is Decentralization Still Recentralization? The Local Government Reform Programme in Tanzania – Ambrose T. Kessy and Willy McCourt 10. An Analysis of Quasi-Decentralized Budgeting in Vietnam – Phuong Nguyen-Hoang and Larry Schroeder 11. Decentralization and ‘Consumerization’ of the Training Function: The ‘Re-invention’ of the Central Training Institute of Hong Kong – Lina Vyas and Sabrina Luk 12. Local Government Reform Programs and Human Resource Capacity Building in Africa: Evidence from Local Government Authorities (LGAs) in Tanzania – William Pallangyo and Christopher J. Rees 13. Assessing the Scope for Partnerships Between Local Governments and Community-Based Organizations: Findings from Rural Morocco – Sylvia I Bergh 14. Decentralisation, Service Delivery, and People’s Perspectives: Empirical Observations on Selected Social Protection Programs in India – Anurag Priyadarshee and Farhad Hossain 15. Decentralised Management of Solid Waste in Mumbai Slums: Informal Privatisation through Patronage – Joop de Wit