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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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  The impact of education policy reforms on the school system: a field study of EGS and other primary schools in Madhya Pradesh

  Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, 2002

  This paper presents the results of fieldwork on rural primary schools of two districts of Madhya Pradesh, India. Since the mid-1990s, the government of this state has initiated reforms aiming to extend the public primary school sector, to decentralise its management, and to facilitate the development of the private sector.
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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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  Operational model of adaptive co-management of Indian forests based on criteria and indicators

  Indian Institute of Forest Management, 2003

  This paper describes a system called "adaptive management" and its role in the implementation of Joint Forest Management (JFM) programmes in India. People living in and near to forests in India are very dependent on the forests for food, fuel, fodder, medicines and other necessities.
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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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  Review of the municipal finance development in Russia in 1992-2002

  Institute for Urban Economics,, Russian Federation, 2003

  This study reviews Russian municipal fiscal autonomy reports over the last decade. It is based on statistics provided by the Russian Finance Ministry as well as on budget report data covering the same period. The study first analyzes the process of the reform of the Russian municipal fiscal system following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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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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