Hobson, Emma Wadie | 2011
- Author(s): Hobson, Emma Wadie
- Publisher: Local economic development network of Africa (LEDNA)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: local government, economic development, development planning, informal sector, employment, income, poverty alleviation, africa south of sahara
This short paper argues that LED strategies can only succeed by taking the informal sector into account. Simultaneously, the LED process provides a major opportunity for improving the performance of the informal sector in Africa in terms of income generation and employment for the poor.
Hordijk, Michaela | 2002
- Author(s): Hordijk, Michaela
- Publisher:
- Pages: 12--15
- Keywords: budgeting, popular participation, decentralization in government, peru
The participatory budgeting process in Villa El Salvador is considered an instrument in the implementation of the urban development plan. Despite weaknesses in the process, it can be considered an innovative experience in participatory local governance.
Horowitz, Leah and Palaniswamy, Nethra | 2010
- Author(s): Horowitz, Leah and Palaniswamy, Nethra
- Publisher: International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: decentralization in government, finance, political aspects, democracy, ghana
Using a comparative case study of two districts in northern Ghana, it is shown that the rationale of partisan politics of the central state is expressed through an informal model of vote buying. Ignoring this may undermine the current efforts to reform decentralized public-resource allocation.
Houtzager, Peter P. and Gurza Lavalle, Adrian | 2010
- Author(s): Houtzager, Peter P. and Gurza Lavalle, Adrian
- Publisher: Springer
- Pages: 1--29
- Keywords: elections, political representation, social aspects, governance, civil society, brazil
Civil society is laying claim to political representation in contemporary democracies. Using original data from Sمo Paulo, Brazil, the need for constructing novel notions of representative legitimacy is examined based on electoral, membership, identity, mediation, proximity, and service arguments.
Hundsbوk Pedersen, Rasmus | 2010
- Author(s): Hundsbوk Pedersen, Rasmus
- Publisher: Danish institute for international studies (DIIS)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: local government, governance, land reform, institution building, information exchange, decentralization in government, tanzania
This working paper provides an overview of the impact on local land governance of the slow and uneven implementation of the 1999 land reform act in Tanzania. It focuses on the establishment of formal institutions for land administration and dispute settlement in rural areas.