This book explores the important topic of fiscal decentralization in Asian  countries, and focuses on how government finance and administration are being  reformed to bring budgetary decisions closer to voters. The focus on Asia is  especially important because all countries in this region have been undergoing  serious fiscal reforms in the past decade. They include one of the biggest  decentralization reforms in Indonesia, significant reforms in democratic  Philippines and Vietnam which are in transition, and Japan, whose fiscal  reconstruction program is covered extensively. India and China, which are  also covered, are very special cases because of their size and because their  policies must fit decentralization into a significant economic growth  scenario.    Contents: Promise and Reality of Fiscal Decentralization (R Bahl);  Political Decentralization in Asia: Case Studies/A Review of  Decentralization:; Trinity Reform of Local Fiscal System in Japan (H  Ikawa); Political Decentralization and Fiscal Reconstruction in Japan (T  Ihori); China's Decentralization and Its Impact on Urbanization (X-J Zuo);  Fiscal Federalism in India - Trends and Reform (M G Rao); Administrative  Reform in Taiwan - An Uneasy and Unfinished Political Task (J N Shih);  Decentralization in the Philippines After Ten Years - What Have We Learned? (B  E Diokno); Thailand's Decentralization: Progress and Prospects (C Suwanmala &  D Weist); Political and Administrative Decentralization in Vietnam (N K Hung);  Managing Indonesia's Rapid Decentralization: Achievements and Challenges (W  Fengler & B Hofman); The Reform of Local Public Finance:; The  Reform of Japanese Local Governments (S Saito & H Yunoue); Local Public  Finance in Taiwan: Reform and Trend (C-W Tseng & H-F Lee); The Revenue  Performance of Malaysian Local Government (A Setapa & E Y S Lin); Local Public  Finance in the Philippines - Balancing Autonomy and Accountability (R G  Manasan).

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