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Local governments in the country are saddled with "unfunded mandates" that tended to hamper the purpose of the Local Government Code to promote local autonomy and decentralization, a German professor on public finance said yesterday.


Professor Paul Bernd Spahn, of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, said studies about local governments in the Philippines showed that these local units "get the mandate but not the funding."


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German professor notes LGUs are not financially independent

September 16, 2006 - 12:00am

Local governments in the country are saddled with "unfunded mandates" that tended to hamper the purpose of the Local Government Code to promote local autonomy and decentralization, a German professor on public...

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