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Decentralization and human development: findings and recommendations from a review of national human development reports
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006This study looks at some of the many ideas and approaches used by the Human Development Reports (HDRs) to address decentralisation in specific countries and communities from a human development perspective.DocumentWell-being and caste in Uttar Pradesh: why UP is not like Tamil Nadu
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006The mobilisation of the lower classes has lead to a significant improvement in social indicators in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Meanwhile in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the lower classes have only experienced a symbolic increase in power.DocumentDecentralisation and poverty reduction
OECD Development Centre, 2005Decentralisation has become a key issue in development policy in the past two decades. Whereas the advantages and risks of transferring power and resources to local tiers of government have been debated for quite some time, it is only very recently that the linkages between decentralisation and poverty reduction have been addressed.DocumentInstitutional change and its impact on the poor and excluded: the Indian decentralisation experience
OECD Development Centre, 2005This study analyses the impact of democratic decentralisation on the chances of socially excluded groups to participate in newly created local governance institutions – Panchayati Raj Institutions within three Indian states.DocumentThe design, process and achievements of Zambia's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004This paper reviews progress made by the Zambian Government in implementing the country's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP). It argues that more could have been done to ensure the implementation of the PRSP if there were more funds.DocumentResearch on the current state of PRS monitoring systems
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004This report reviews recent literature on the monitoring of Poverty Reduction Strategies. It discusses four challenging issues: institutional arrangements; the role of non-government organisations; implementation and intermediate output monitoring; using results.The main findings from this study are:severe capacity constraints are not sufficiently acknowledged.DocumentInventory of poverty and impact monitoring (PIM) approaches in Nepal (Background paper)
Regional Conference on Poverty Monitoring in Asia, 2004This paper examines the current status of poverty in Nepal, and focuses on approaches to poverty and/or impact monitoring as well plans for PRSP monitoring.DocumentDemocratic decentralization and the issue of inequality
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002This paper, written in preparation for the World Resources Institute's meetings in Bellagio, Italy, examines the capacity of democratic decentralisation to promote greater equity.DocumentGovernance and poverty reduction: evidence from newly decentralized Indonesia
Support for Decentralisation Measures, Indonesia / Proyek Pendukung Pemantapan Penataan Desentralisasi (P4D), 2004This study focuses on the impact of bad governance on the poor and those people who are most vulnerable to the impact of bad governance.By assembling scattered anecdotal evidence on how past and current practices of bad governance in Indonesia have hurt the poor, the study shows that the adverse impact of bad governance on the poor is real, systematically affects many people, and undermines theDocumentThe political economy of international development and pro-poor livestock policies: a comparative assessment
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004This paper analyses political organisation and action that can be used to overcome the lack of voice of poor producers in the domestic and international policy arenas.Pages