Reforming Urban Governance in Bangladesh

Pranab Kumar Panday is Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA in 2012.  Panday's main areas of research include public policy, public administration, governance and gender studies.  His major book publications include Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh: Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes (2013), and Women Empowerment in South Asia: NGO Interventions and Agency Building in Bangladesh (2016).

• Chapter One. Introduction.- Chapter Two. A Brief History of Urban Governance in Bangladesh.- Chapter Three. Scale and Magnitude of Urbanization in Bangladesh.- Chapter Four. Intergovernmental Structure and Functional Assignments of City Corporations.- Chapter Five. Effective Local Political Structures and Leadership.- Chapter Six. Local Administrative Powers of City Corporations.- Chapter Seven. Local Fiscal Autonomy of City Corporations.- Chapter Eight. Local Participation and Accountability.- Chapter Nine. Conclusion and Recommendations.