Democratic decentralization and local development: insights from Moroccos advanced regionalization

• Main Author: Bergh, Sylvia I. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK and Northampton MA, USA Edward Elgar Publishing 2021
• Series: Elgar Handbooks in Development
• Subjects: GTF; JPHV; GBC; Decentralization reforms; Morocco; Political Economy; Local development; Governance; Moroccan; Deconcentration reforms; Democracy; Human Development; Global inequalities
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Decentralization reforms have been undertaken around the world for about 45 years now, generating a significant body of literature. In this chapter, I will review a part of this literature and present some findings on the case of recent decentralization reforms at the regional level in Morocco. The...