Includes bibliographical references. Gonzalez, E. T., Ramos, C. G., Estrada, G. E. B., Lopez, L. V. A., & Igaya, G. L. A. (2001). Managing urbanization under a decentralized governance framework (Vol. 2). Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines: Demographic Research and Development Foundation, Inc.

Chapter 1: Human settlement patterns and trends in urban decentralization -- Urban decentralization and dispersal -- Deconcentration of Manila -- Internal migration and urbanization -- Reclassification and net natural increase: engines or urban growth and decentralization -- Fertility decline and urbanization -- Chapter 2: Links between economic growth and urban decentralization -- High urbanization levels, stagnant industrial output -- The urbanization-services sector connection -- Does urbanization expand job opportunities? -- Industrial diffusion or primary revival -- Income levels and wages as determinants of urban decentralization -- Chapter 3: Global influences in urban decentralization -- Foreign direct investments -- Exports -- The question of OCW remittances -- Chapter 4: Linking urbanization with infrastructure and human development -- Infrastructure-urbanization links -- Human development and shelter services -- Chapter 5: Impact of growth corridors on urban decentralization -- Conceptual framework -- Growth corridors: origins and features -- Spatial development under a liberalizing regime -- Some baseline indicators of the chosen growth corridors -- Chapter 6: Local government and decentralized urban growth -- Subsidiary and allocational efficiency of local choice -- Backdrop of asymmetric decentralization of urban services -- Providing public goods of a localized nature -- Financing urban improvements -- Central-local relations -- Chapter 7: Conclusions and policy recommendations -- Conclusions -- Policy recommendations

Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 2) is a companion piece to Volume 1, which offers the institutional details of managing and delivering urban services. This second volume, meanwhile, explores the setting in which these services are being delivered--one of rapid urbanization mostly unaccompanied by balanced regional growth--and the forces that have helped shape this environment. During the past two decades, the government made several attempts to achieve a less Manila-focused distribution of economic power and political authority. These include industrial promotion schemes that explicitly sought to attract investments into other regions. In 1991, it passed the Local Government Code--envisioned to further fuel the decentralization process. The outcome is there for all to see: no high levels of investments surged outside Metro Manila; consequently, there has been no sensational shift in local development patterns since the decentralizing measures were introduced. This book explains why, and suggests that the prospect of economic convergence between Metro Manila and the rest of the country would be gradual rather than dramatic. - From the Publisher