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Show 127 reserved to the States" wide range of many public these Constitutional public functions, they nevertheless sector functions possible." as to the federal and state assigned found in (Article 52). Although In provisions include indicate the intention to devolve general, the a as expenditure responsibilities governments in the Constitution are close to what is highly decentralized countries (World Bank 2000). Since the decentralization of 1993/94, expenditure responsibilities to regional governments has proceeded rather quickly. Table 27 summarizes the percentage share in total consolidated government seven-year period highest share of regional governments' expenditure. between 1993/94 and 2000/01, the share of expenditure responsibilities The budget was has averaged achieved in regional governments' 32 percent of total government 1997/98, Eritrea, which involved and expenditure. when the share of regional governments up 46 percent. In the next two years, the share declined because of the Ethiopia Over the between reallocation to the federal government for resource defense purposes. In 2000/01, however, the war was expenditure share went up to the overall average of about one-third of the total government spending. However, sectors of the economy that devolved to regional governments: construction, agriculture, education and health. Regional states account for 72 road percent of spending on are being increasingly social services such' as there are four education and health. Because education 40"It is not meaningful to consider a particular service to be 'assigned' to the local level, when much of the relevant policy and regulatory framework, and indeed much of the financing, may occur from higher levels of government and the actual service delivery may be at a lower institutional level. Clarity as to who is - important, but many different public sector actors may appropriately be provision of any particular public service. What matters is thus not so much that each expenditure function, broadly understood, is clearly assigned to one level of government or another, but rather that it is clear to all exactly who is responsible for doing precisely what." (Bird 2000, p. 3) responsible for what is indeed involved in the |
