Tarek, Muslehuddin Ahmad <br/><br/>
Upazila system in Bangladesh: financial performance 

<br/><br/> The government introduced the upazila system at the grass-root level under the leadership of directly elected people's representatives on November 7, 1982. The upazila works simultaneously as the middle of a three-tier local government system now existing in the country as well as the lowest field level administrative unit. The upazila is sub-divded into several unions each having a Union Parishad, the lowest tier of local government system consisting of nine elected members and one chairman directly elected by the people. In this article, an attempt has been made to analyse the financial performance of the Upazila Parishad in relation to the (financial) structure as the two have a close correlationship in t 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Administrative Decentralization<br/> Finance<br/> Upazila System<br/>Local Government - Bangladesh