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Balancing Rural Poverty Reduction and Citizen Participation: The Contradictions of Uganda’s Decentralization Program
Paul Francis,Robert James +1 more
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In this paper, the authors analyze Ugandan decentralization program in terms of a dual-mode system of local governance, where under a technocratic mode, conditional funding from the center is earmarked for particular programs but with little local participation.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2003-02-01. It has received 366 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Decentralization & Rural poverty.read more
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Relocating Participation Within a Radical Politics of Development: Insights from Political Action and Practice
Sam Hickey,S. Mohan +1 more
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Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Four African Countries
Frank Ellis,H. Ade Freeman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare and contrast rural livelihoods in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi, with a view to informing rural poverty reduction policies within Poverty Reduction Strategy Plans (PRSPs).
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Relocating participation within a radical politics of development
Sam Hickey,Giles Mohan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that participation needs to be theoretically and strategically informed by a notion of "citizenship" and be located within the critical modernist approach to development.
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What the World Bank means by poverty reduction, and why it matters
TL;DR: In this article, Peet's splendid assault on the "Unholy Trinity" of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO) depicts the three institutions as together en...
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Decentralization, forests and livelihoods: Theory and narrative
TL;DR: This article argued that the ideal model of democratic decentralization described in the literature is unlikely to be implemented given the governance constraints present in many tropical forest countries, and even if that model could be implemented, it is shown that decentralization cannot necessarily lead to forest conservation.
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Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism.
Franz Ansprenger,Mahmood Mamdani +1 more
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Participation and Accountability at the Periphery: Democratic Local Governance in Six Countries
TL;DR: In this article, a six-country study sponsored by USAID analyzed the two topics of participation and accountability, finding that both show significant potential for promoting DLG, though there seem to be important limitations on how much participation can actually deliver, and accountability covers a much wider range of activity and larger scope for DLG strategy than initially appears.
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The Political Economy of Democratic Decentralization
TL;DR: The authors examines the origins and implications of decentralization from a political economy perspective, with a focus on its promise and limitations, and explores why countries have often chosen not to decentralize, even when evidence suggests that doing so would be in the interests of the government.
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Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa
Richard C. Crook,James Manor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s is presented, focusing on the enhancement of participation; accountability between people, politicians and bureaucrats; and most importantly, on whether governmental performance actually improved in comparison with previous forms of administration.
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Local Government Act
TL;DR: In this article, the lecturer began his address by a short resume of the various Acts relating to roads, and the methcds by which they can be opened, and explained that the laws dealing with roads have been built upon a mass of Common Law, dating back for a great number of years, quoting cases from the 18th century.