FISCAL
DECENTRALIZATION
AND
REVENUE
MOBILIZATION:
CASE OF
OLONGAPO
CITY,
PHILIPPINES
by
VANDANA SAREEN
B.P.,
Physical
Planning
School
of
Planning
&
Architecture,
New
Delhi,
1997
Department
of
Urban
Studies
and
Planning
in
Partial
Fulfillment
of
the
Requirements
for
the
Degree
of
Masters
in
City
Planning
at
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology
June
2000
©
2000Vandana
Sareen.
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rights
reserved.
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Department
of
Urban Studies
and
Planning
May
5,
2000
Certified
by
Associate
Professor
Paul Smoke
Thesis
Supervisor
Accepted
by
Associate
Professor
Paul
Smoke
Chair,
MCP
Program
Department
of
Urban Studies
and
Planning
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FISCAL
DECENTRALIZATION
AND
REVENUE
MOBILIZATION:
CASE
OF
OLONGAPO CITY,
PHILIPPINES
by
Vandana
Sareen
Submitted
to
the
Department
of
Urban
Studies
and
Planning
on
May
12,
2000
in
Partial
Fulfillment
of
the
Requirements
for the
Degree
of
Master
in
City
Planning
ABSTRACT
This
study
examines
problems encountered
in
revenue
mobilization
by
the
Local
Government
of
Olongapo
City
under
the
Philippines
fiscal
decentralization
policy.
It
documents
the revenue
generation
processes
in
Olongapo
City,
analyses
the
various
administrative
and procedural
roadblocks
faced
in
generating
revenue
from
major
local
sources,
and
recommends
steps
that can
be
taken
to
increase
local revenues.
It
concludes
that revenue
reform
and
performance
at
the
local
level
is
highly
dependent
on
local
administrative,
technical
and
managerial
capacity.
Developing local
capacity
in
these
areas
is
critical
for effective
implementation
of
the
broader
decentralized
fiscal
system.
Thesis
Advisor:
Paul Smoke
Title:
Associate
Professor
of
the
Practice
of
Development
and
Planning
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4
ACKOWLEGEMENTS
My
research
was made possible
by
the
generous support
of
MIT
and
the
World
Bank.
I
am
grateful
to
Prof.
Paul
Smoke
and
Aniruddha
Das
Gupta
for
conceiving
of
this project.
I
am
also
grateful
to Toru
Hashimoto
at
World
Bank
office
in
Manila
for overseeing
the
work
in
the
Philippines.
I
would
also like
to
thank
Paul
Smoke,
my
thesis
advisor,
for
his
sturdy
support,
encouragement,
very
clear
and
patient
feedback
and
assisting
with
the
editing;
Jennifer
Davis,
my
reader
for
her
comments
and
suggestions.
I
also
owe
a
great
deal
of
gratitude
to
Mayor Kate Gordon for
her
invitation
to
work
with
Olongapo
City
Government;
Attorney
Ferdinand Ariosteranos
and
Elizabeth
Simpa-
Zavalla
for
their
insight
and
hospitality, Cecelia
and Lynette
for
providing
me
with
a
wealth
of
information
on
Olongapo.
I
would
also
like
to
thank
the
City
officials:
Oscar
Augustine,
Anselmo
Santos,
Dennis Martinez,
Dante
Ramos
and
Attorney
Bargado
for
devoting
their
time
and
making available
the
data
and
information for
the
study.
I
am
grateful
to
a
number
of
people
in
the
City
Council,
the
central
agencies,
and
the
CDS
consultants
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