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  Poverty reduction, decentralization and community-based monitoring systems

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2003

  With a growing emphasis on good governance as a prerequisite to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there has been an accompanying pressure on governments to decentralise. Decentralisation has shifted greater responsibility to local government units to carry out policies and programs, brought with it greater demand for local level data.
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  Out of reach: local politics and the distribution of development funds in Madhya Pradesh

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This study investigates two schemes in Madhya Pradesh aimed at devolving development funds from the Central government to members of the parliament (MPs) for development of their constituencies, as well as separate state government allocaton of development funds to the members of the state assemblies (MLAs).
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  Trends and prospects for poverty reduction in rural India: context and options

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper lays out the macroeconomic and structural contexts for poverty reduction in India and discusses opportunities and constraints in relation to public investment and service provision that have a bearing on rural livelihoods.
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  Social inclusion: a pre-requisite for equitable and sustainable natural resource management: two experiences in Mali

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper calls for the involvement of all stakeholders in managing of common property resources. The authors suggest that degradation of natural resources is primarily due to the conflict of interest between different stakeholder and base their argument on experiences of programme support to decentralised natural resource management in Mali.
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  Decentralised Governance for Development: a combined practice note on decentralisation, local governance and urban-rural development

  United Nations Development Programme, 2004

  This note provides guidance to UNDP country offices on how to operationalise approaches to the design, implementation and monitoring of Decentralised Governance for Development (DGD) initiatives in areas where it is believed UNDP can make a difference. It provides concrete examples from multi-country experiences to reinforce such guidance.
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  Local government initiative: pro-poor infrastructure and service delivery in Asia

  United Nations Capital Development Fund, 2004

  This publication includes a synthesis of case studies that focus on the experiences of innovation in improving Infrastructure and service delivery (ISD) through rural local governments (LGs), and their outcomes, in three Asian countries: Nepal, Bangladesh, and Cambodia and also in Uganda. Bangladesh: Local Governance & Service Delivery to the Poor, which outlines lessons on the scope for
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  Decentralisation and poverty in developing countries: exploring the impact

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper finds that the link between decentralisation and poverty reduction cannot be clearly established. It argues that in some of the poorest countries characterised by weak institutions and political conflicts, decentralisation could actually make matters worse.
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  Fifty years of regional inequality in China: a journey through central planning, reform, and openness

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This study makes an attempt at understanding the driving forces behind the changes in China’s regional inequality. It constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present.
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  Poverty and Environment Times (no. 2)

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004

  A collection of articles on poverty and the environment. Content includes:understanding of environment and poverty linksenvironment and health: HIV/AIDS and the environmentIsraelis and Palestinians share water in a Friends of the Earth water project.
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  Land reform and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper examines the experiences of implementation of land reform policies in the Eastern Cape through a series of case studies.It looks at how attempts at redistribution, restitution and land tenure reform have resulted in a variety of models and approaches.

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