Revenue Mobilisation And Its Management At A Newly Created Assembly: A Case Of Kwadaso Municipal Assembly

ABSTRACT Decentralization is assumed to bring about better efficiency in the distribution of public goods and services at the local level. Interestingly, this acclaimed position of decentralization depends largely on the belief that local governments will in practice exercise much fiscal discretion when it comes to the allocation of resources than the central government. However, to the shock of many, local assembly’s fiscal discretion appears to be very controlled in the sense that most local authorities tend to have limited power even over their own budgets or external sources of funds. Acc…