Roy Kelly, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy  

Roy Kelly

Office Location: 280 Rubenstein Hall
Email Address: roykelly@duke.edu

Mailing Address

Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1985
MCRP, Harvard University, 1981
M.A., Harvard University, 1981
B.A., West Virginia University, 1976

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise:
Fiscal Decentralization
Local Government Finance and Management
Investment Appraisal
Community Development
Economic Growth and Development

Current projects: Fiscal Decentralization Reform (Ghana), Devolving Property Tax Reform in Indonesia, Institutionalizing Decentralization Reforms in Developing Countries

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. with Kelly, R; Boex, J, Fiscal Federalism and Intergovernmental Financial Relations, in International Handbook of Public Financial Management, edited by Allan, R; Hemming, R; Potter, B (2013), Palgrave McMillan .
  2. Kelly, R, Property Tax Collection and Enforcement, in Primer for the Property Tax, edited by McCluskey, W (2013), Wiley-Blackwell Publication .
  3. R. Kelly and Jamie Boex, Fiscal Decentralization in Kenya: A Small Step or Giant Leap?” (2011) (Urban Institute Policy Brief, May 2011.) [html] .
  4. Kelly, R, Property Taxation in Tanzania, in International Handbook of Land and Property Taxation, edited by Bird, R; Slack, E (2004), Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar .
  5. Kelly, R, Property Taxation in Indonesia: Emerging Challenges from Decentralization, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, vol. 26 no. 1 (2004), pp. 71-90 .
  6. Glenday, RKWG; Mehta, M, Kenya: An Assessment of Local Service Delivery and Local Government in Kenya, World Bank Report no. 24383 (2003) .
  7. Devas, N; Kelly, R, Regulation or revenues? An analysis of local business licenses, with a case study of the single business permit reform in Kenya, Public Administration and Development, vol. 21 no. 5 (December, 2001), pp. 381-391, WILEY [doi]  [abs].
  8. Kelly, R, Designing a Property Tax Reform for Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analytical Framework applied to Kenya, Public Finance and Budgeting, vol. 20 no. 4 (2000), pp. 36-51 .

Research Categories: International Development

Research Description: Public Financial Management and Budgeting; fiscal decentralization; intergovernmental transfers; local government finance; property taxation

Bio/Profile

Dr. Roy Kelly is an international development specialist focused on fiscal decentralization, local government finance and property tax policy, administration and reform, expenditure analysis and public financial management. He has 30 years of international experience with designing and implementing public sector reforms in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Dr. Kelly is a Professor of the Practice (Public Policy) at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. From 1982-2001, he worked at Harvard University with the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard International Tax Program. While at Harvard, Dr. Kelly served as Lecturer in Economics, Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Director of the Program for Information Technology for Fiscal Systems and the Program on Fiscal Decentralization and Financial Management of Regional and Local Governments, and as a development associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID).

Dr. Kelly served as resident adviser in Indonesia, Kenya, Cambodia and Tanzania and as short term adviser in 25 countries including Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahamas, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.