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Searching with a thematic focus on Decentralisation & Local Governance, Governance, Poverty

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  Contributing to the fight against HIV/AIDS within the informal economy: the existing and potential role of decentralized systems of social protection

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper reviews the ad hoc evidence and explores the potential of decentralised systems of social protection (DSSP) to contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS. The paper focuses on systems set up by associations and organisations in civil society to cover workers and households that do not have access to statutory systems of social protection.
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  PRSPs and decentralisation in Malawi: can they offer any progress?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Poverty reduction efforts in Malawi pivot on the twin strategies of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and decentralisation. Yet researchers argue that the Malawi PRSP represents a mixture of policies and generalities that could equally well have appeared in any strategic document of the past 30 years.
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  Decentralisation and poverty reduction: the reality in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Although decentralisation is often heralded as a means to promote democracy and poverty reduction, there is little reliable evidence to prove these claims. In fact, ruling parties and ethnic elites in Africa have used decentralisation to further strengthen their own power and influence at a local level. New research argues that on its own, decentralization will not reduce poverty.
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  Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper reviews the theory and evidence on the impact of political market imperfections, and develops the implications of these findings for the structure and design of policy interventions meant to improve the allocation of resources.
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  Pathways through the sustainable livelihoods maze

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the concept of sustainable livelihoods (SL). Has the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) to development and poverty reduction managed to address gender, power and markets and to overcome the sectoral divisions which have characterised development work? How can SLA be mainstreamed?
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  Synthesis study on supporting decentralisation and local government: lessons learned, good practices and emerging issues', Report for the DAC Working Party on Aid Evaluation.

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  The aim of this guide is to offer donors and partner countries recommendations for improving programmes supporting decentralisation and local governance, focussing in particular on:the linkage between political decentralisation and poverty alleviationpartnerships between local governments and civil societysustainability challenges within this field of donor supportLessons l
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  Democracy and development: time to put politics back into poverty eradication?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Is there evidence that democracy is needed to sustain economic growth? What are the links between good governance and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)? Could international institutions benefit from an injection of democracy?
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  Enhancing economic security in transition: pluralism in service delivery

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This paper argues that economic reform has led to fundamental challenges to the provision of social welfare in China.
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  Community based natural resources management in Mozambique: a theoretical or practical strategy for local sustainable development?: the case study of Derre Forest Reserve

  IUCN, Mozambique, 2003

  What does community based natural resource management (CBNRM) mean for Mozambique's poor?Through the case study of Derre Forest Reserve in Zambezia province, this paper explores the theory and practice of CBNRM, an approach which has been widely promoted in southern Africa, and is central to elements of the Mozambican forestry and wildlife policy of 1999.The paper examines the history of com
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  Thinking strategically about politics and poverty

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This synthesis of a large research exercise offers a series of guidelines for thinking about specific cases. The most general guideline is 'don't be (so) gloomy'. Political analysis does not serve only to explain why desirable outcomes are sometimes difficult to achieve. Good analysis also tells us about the wide range of opportunities that exist for pro-poor policies.

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