Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/241037 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
PIDS Discussion Paper Series No. 2020-48
Publisher: 
Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Quezon City
Abstract: 
Philippine local governments were given increased autonomy, revenue-raising and expenditure responsibilities under the Local Government Code of 1991 (LGC). At the same time, the LGC instituted the intergovernmental fiscal transfer called the internal revenue allotment (IRA) to help to help local governments fulfill their mandates recognizing fiscal imbalance in devolved functions. Apart from this, national government provides additional assistance to local governments through programs lodged in different agencies that are meant for devolved infrastructure services. This study examines these national government programs, evolution and expenditure trends and surveys the literature of assessments of these programs. Understanding the evolution in the design and implementation of these programs would be a powerful tool moving forward with strengthened decentralization, especially in designing policy for national government oversight agencies and for any envisioned support programs of national government. In the past decade, the three programs that received the largest budgetary allocations, are the Department of Public Works and Highways' Local Infrastructure Program, Department of Agriculture's Farm to Market Road programs and the Department of the Interior and Local Government's Financial Subsidy to Local Government Units (LGUs). Though expenditures on these programs have been increasing as a whole, there have been no clear trends for the individual programs except for one performance-based program. Furthermore, several programs were initially targeted toward poorer LGUs but eventually expanded in coverage because of the low uptake of these targeted LGUs. [...]
Subjects: 
Subnational government
Mandanas ruling
local government infrastructure programs
governance
institutions
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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