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• Efficiency of local service provision in Zambia's health, education and road sectors : implications for decentralisation and the effectiveness of budget support
  2012, Leiderer, Stefan Portal

  This study examines the scope for improving the operational efficiency of public financial management (PFM)...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Electronic government : proceedings
  cop. 2011, Janssen, Marijn Portal

  [Partial preview] The proceedings of the 2011 international conference on electronic government contain several papers...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Elite capture or capture elites? : lessons from the 'counter-elite' and 'co-opt-elite' approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana
  2010, Wong, Sam Portal

  According to many, community-based development leaves room for elite capture. Using cases from Ghana and...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Elusive meanings : decentralization, conservation, and local democracy
  2008, Diaw, Mariteuw Chimère and Blomley, David and Lescuyer, Guillaume Portal

  This paper questions the concept of democratic decentralization and its reductionist focus on state, powers,...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Embedding poor people's voices in local governance : participation and political empowerment in India : a report to West Bengal stakeholders
  ca. 2011], Portal

  This is a preliminary report on the opportunities available to poor and marginalised households in...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Emerging dimensions of decentralization debate in the age of glocalization
  2008, Sharma, Chanchal Kumar Portal

  Often competing approaches to the design of decentralization are reviewed. It is argued that each...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Empowering Indonesian communities through direct participation in developing infrastructure and services
  2010, Portal

  The National Program for Community Empowerment encourages local communities to participate in the planning process;...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Empowering local people through community-based resource monitoring : a comparison of Brazil and Namibia
  2012, Constantino, Pedro de Araujo Lima E-article

  The psychological, social, economic, and political aspects of local empowerment in wildlife monitoring systems in...

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  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Empowering the marginalized : case studies of social accountability initiatives in Asia
  cop. 2007, Sirker, Karen and Cosic, Sladjana Portal

  Thirteen case studies of social accountability, including citizen participation in public policy making, participatory budgeting,...

  MainCategory :

  Decentralization & local governance
  

• Empowering the poor : local governance for poverty reduction
  2003, Bonfiglioli, Angelo Portal

  The basic conceptual dimensions of poverty and local governance are analysed and the key characteristics...

  MainCategory :

  Decentralization & local governance