Roy Kelly, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Duke Center for International Development  

Office Location: 280 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9392, (919) 613-9230
Duke Box: 90237
Email Address: roykelly@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • International, International Development
  • Public Finance, State and Local Government Finance

Education:
PhD, Harvard University, 1985
MCRP, Harvard University, 1981
BA, Magna Cum Laude, West Virginia University, 1976

Research Categories: International Development

Current projects: Fiscal Decentralization in Nepal, Fiscal Decentralization and Property Tax Reform, Institutionalizing Decentralization Reforms in Developing Countries

Research Description: Research: Fiscal Decentralization; Public financial management and budgeting, intergovernmental transfers; local government finance; property taxation

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. R.B. Kelly. "Property Taxation in Indonesia: Emerging Challenges from Decentralization." Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 26.1 (2004): 71-90.
  2. R.B. Kelly. "Property Taxation in Tanzania." International Handbook of Land and Property Taxation. Ed. Richard Bird and Enid Slack Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004
  3. R.B. Kelly. "Property Taxation in Kenya." International Handbook of Land and Property Taxation. Ed. Richard Bird and Enid Slack Edward Elgar, 2004
  4. R.B. Kelly. "Designing a Property Tax Reform for Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analytical Framework applied to Kenya." Public Finance and Budgeting 20.4 (2000): 36-51.
  5. R.B. Kelly. "Designing Effective Property Tax Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and International Experience." Journal of Property Tax Assessment and Administration 5.3 (2000): 31-52.
  6. R.B. Kelly. "Intergovernmental Revenue Allocation Theory and Practice: Application To Nepal"." Asian Journal of Public Administration 21.1 (1999).
  7. R.B. Kelly with Graham Glenday Meera Mehta. "Kenya: An Assessment of Local Service Delivery and Local Government in Kenya." World Bank Report 24383 (June 25, 2002).
  8. R.B. Kelly with Glenn Jenkins and Rup Khadka. ""Central-Local Fiscal Relations"." Reengineering Tax Systems in Low-Income Countries: An Application to Nepal. Ed. Glenn P. Jenkins and Rup Khadka New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002
  9. R.B. Kelly with Nick Devas. "Regulation or Revenues? An Analysis of Local Business Licensing, with a Case Study of the Single Business Permit Reform in Kenya." Public Administration and Development 21 (2001): 381-391.
  10. R.B. Kelly with Marco Montes, Edith Maseya, Kenneth Nkandkha and Kiisa Tombere. "Improving Revenue Mobilization in Malawi: Study on Business Licensing and Property Rates (Final Report)." (October, 2001). (Policy Research submitted to the Decentralization Secretariat (Government of Malawi).)  [abs]

Curriculum Vitae

Roy Kelly