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• UNPAN online training centre
  2008-, Portal

  Topics of this online training include: (1) concepts of decentralized governance; (2) policy formulation and...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• UNU school for land administration studies
  2011-, Portal

  The School for Land Administration Studies aims to provide support in the area of land...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Up-scaling local economic development : lessons from the Ghana decent work programme
  2011, Tijmstra, Sylvia Portal

  This case study presents and analyses the lessons learned from the Local Economic Development (LED)...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Upholding customary land rights through formalization : evidence from Tanzania's program of land reform
  2012, Fairley, Elizabeth Portal

  The challenges of bringing informal, customary land arrangements into a universal formalized land administration are...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Using and strengthening partner systems at the subnational level
  2012, Portal

  The Busan Declaration assigns local governments an important role as a link between citizens and...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• UTS: CLG Centre for local government
  2012-, Portal

  The Centre promotes a cooperative approach to local government education, research and development, and maintains...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Value of people's participation for good governance in developing countries
  2010, Waheduzzaman Portal

  One of the major barriers to people's participation in local government in Bangladesh is the...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Van Vollenhoven institute [for law, governance, and development]
  2012-, Portal

  Through research and teaching, the Van Vollenhoven Institute seeks to contribute to a better understanding...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Vertical and horizontal decentralization and ethnic diversity in sub-Saharan Africa
  2012, Ranis, Gustav Portal

  Two types of decentralization are examined in the context of the sub-Saharan reality. In vertical...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Violence and social orders : a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history : implications for economic development
  2009, North, Douglass C. and Wallis, John Joseph and Weingast, Barry R. Portal

  This framework for understanding political, economic, and social systems in human history, which is thought...

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  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance