Decentralization initiatives, Economic and Community Development in Pakistan

Ahmad, Muhammad Shakil; Talib, Noraini Bt. Abu

doi:10.7763/ijtef.2010.v1.67

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“…The range of locations makes it convenient for social work schools to identify internships for the practicum students. Additionally, this type of practicum is also preferred by students, as they can complete a field placement close to their homes (Ahmad & Talib, 2010).…”

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“…The impact of decentralized local development resulting from the alignment of community empowerment, local governance, improved service delivery and private sector development arrangements includes community welfare and the accumulation of human, social and economic capital (Ahmad & Talib, 2010a;Bowles & Gintis, 2002;Duncana & Goodwina, 2008;Kakumba, 2010;Rondinelli, 1980). Human so- Issue 1 33-44 2013 Kurosaki, 2006;NRB, 2001;Paul, 2010).…”

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Local Government Systems and Decentralization: Evidence from Pakistan’s Devolution Plan

Ahmad

Talib

2013

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Vizja Press&IT www.ce.vizja.pl 33The discourse of governance and development practitioners continues to embrace community participation and community empowerment as an elementary means of building local capacity for poverty reduction, development and change at the local level. This article is a review of the decentralization initiatives of local government systems after the announcement of the devolution plan in Pakistan. It evaluates the initiatives' participatory methods to ascertain the extent to which they have improved the process of community development at the local level. This article also measures the impact of community empowerment on the sustainability of community-driven projects implemented under the decentralization initiative through community-based organizations known as Citizen Community Boards (CCBs). Document analysis and literature review methodologies were employed to gain further insight into the decentralization phenomenon in Pakistan. The results describe human development, improvements in community empowerment and the sustainability of local projects; however, the sense of community has yet to be translated into shared benefits for rural communities. The fundamental goal of decentralization seems to be elusive because only power was transferred to the local level, whereas there is little support for community capacity building and community access to resources and the elites still control the electoral process. It is argued that community development initiatives in Pakistan require continuous support from local governments to boost local rural economies. Likewise, community-local government participatory development strategies can lead to strong local ownership and empowerment in rural communities. ABSTRACTH7

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“…More resources, including services tax, have been distributed to the provinces with greater fiscal autonomy through decentralization as a result of the development of the 18th amendment in 2010 to the constitution and the 7th NFC award with altered revenue sharing formula (Adeney, 2012). After devolution new provincial authorities reaffirmed to administer the devolved services tax, however, due to massive difficulties as highlighted by Ahmad (2010) involved in collecting this tax, a drop in the quantity of money received from this source would not be unexpected. There were problems of availability of technical human resource and other related issues; however, unless given the chance, provinces cannot build the ability to offer these services.…”

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Efficiency Analysis of Decentralized Services Tax in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: an Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Atif,

Nazir

2023

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The study offers an innovative empirical study to evaluate the efficiency of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa revenue agency and the Federal Board of Revenue with reference to the decentralized services sales tax. The paper makes a unique contribution by incorporating the effect of fiscal decentralisation on the efficiency of services tax in current empirical research. The study evaluated both tax departments using a non-parametric technique termed advanced envelopment analysis. Six inputs and four outputs make up the main service operations carried out by the tax offices. Regarding the efficiency score, which is satisfactorily, the empirical outcomes of both technical efficiency output and input DEA approaches are remarkably close. The study, which also concentrated on the post-decentralization situation, revealed a number of potential difficulties that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa revenue administration may have encountered in the early years of its existence, clearly demonstrating a lack of preparedness prior to devolution. Finally, the study recommended addressing the concerns mentioned, including the conflict of jurisdiction, the refund issue, and the lack of sales tax experts to empower province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to handle the devolved services tax to the full extent of its potential.

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Decentralization initiatives, Economic and Community Development in Pakistan

Cited by 3 publications

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Transforming Social Work Field Education

Transforming Social Work Field Education

Local Government Systems and Decentralization: Evidence from Pakistan’s Devolution Plan

Efficiency Analysis of Decentralized Services Tax in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: an Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

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