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Decentralisation: not necessarily always a good thing?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Decentralisation is in vogue and not just in multi-party democracies. Military dictatorships, one-party states and even authoritarian monarchies have signed up. Amidst this enthusiasm, is there empirical evidence that decentralised regimes are more likely to be pro-poor, responsive and transparent? Have decentralisation and democratisation been naively conflated?DocumentThe body [chapter in ‘Voices of the poor: crying out for change’]
World Bank, 2000While it is recognised that poverty and poor health are closely linked, it is rare that the poor have the opportunity to voice their own experiences with respect to health issues. Poor people from across the world described their own health experiences in the World Bank's 'Voices of the Poor', a multi-country study of poor people's experiences of poverty.DocumentVoices of the poor
PovertyNet, World Bank, 1999Also known as Consultations With The Poor, the report looks at poor people's definition of what comprises a good life, and the role of poverty.Pages