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    Decentralization and service delivery

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005
    Dissatisfied with centralised approaches to delivering local public services, a large number of countries are decentralising responsibility for these services to lower- level, locally elected governments, with mixed results.
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    Giving citizens what they want: preference matching and the devolution of public service delivery

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    This paper analyses whether the decentralisation of public service delivery is likely to lead to better preference matching in the Philippines and Uganda.The paper finds that officials at higher levels of local governments (Provinces and Districts) have no knowledge of local preferences but officials at lower levels of government (municipalities and sub-counties) do have some knowledge of prefe
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    The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006
    The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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    The untapped opportunity: how public-private partnerships can advance education for all

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2006
    This report presents and analyses data to demonstrate the extraordinary progress that has been made in the last half century to bring primary and secondary education to the world’s children.
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    Well-being and caste in Uttar Pradesh: why UP is not like Tamil Nadu

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006
    The 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.
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    Democratic politics and pro-poor social services: unpacking the concept of "reform"

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    This draft paper seeks to deepen understanding of the politics of improved education and health services for the poor by unpacking the concept of "reform" and exploring the varied political challenges of different categories of reform.
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    Globeleq: the alternative report

    War on Want, 2006
    This is the fourth in the series of War on Want alternative reports. The purpose of these reports is to compare and contrast the rhetoric of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with the reality of companies’ actual practices.
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    Unpacking rights and wrongs: do human rights make a difference?: the case of water rights in India and South Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper focuses on why poor and marginalised people still lack access to economic, social and cultural rights despite a fairly mainstream support to positive rights in mainstream development debates.
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    The public distribution systems of foodgrains and implications for food security

    2006
    What are the differences between the Public Distribution Systems (PDS) of foodgrains in India and China? This paper compares these two systems and how they have helped to improve national food security, food security of the general public, and food security of the poor.In the 1990s both India and China reformed their PDS, but each following a different path.
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    Global environmental governance: a reform agenda

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2006
    Since environmental issues entered the international agenda in the early 1970s, global environmental governance (GEG) institutions have been developing rapidly. As a consequence, however, the GEG system has outgrown its original design.

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