Title: Introducing invisible local governance : contribution to the parallel session on traditional structure and local governance

Authors: Olowu, Dele

Place: [Washington, DC

Publisher: World bank]

Year: 2004

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Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: local government, governance, informal sector, community leadership, nigeria

Abstract: This study from Nigeria emphasizes that informal indigenous governance systems are as much structures of local indigenous governance as are traditional rulers. Their invisibility actually makes them effective. Formal and informal linkages exist between these informal institutions and formal ones.

URL: http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/136160/tslg/pdf/introducing.pdf

Document type: Portal