Subject(s): Urban problems -- Local Government -- Local government and economic development : New policy, British view of local government -- Backgrounds and beginnings - colonial system up to 1940 : West Indies, India and Ceylon, African background- tribal authority and indirect rule, west Africa, East Africa -- Transition to modern institutions -- Local budget : Budgetary accounts, current expenditure, budgetary accounts, current revenue, taxation of farmers and rural communities, taxation of urban land buildings, budgetary accounts, capital accounts, grants -- Finance and politics : Relations with central government, urban problems, immigration, problems of rural local government