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Civil society, public space and local power: a study of the participatory budget in Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000Looks at participatory budgets and analyses the limits of State policies and the role of civil organisations in improving the quality of democratic life.DocumentAssistance to the transition economies: were there alternatives?
William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, 2002This paper provides an assessment of the policies that were followed within the transition economies and a discussion about the extent to which there were known alternatives that could have resulted in superior outcomes in terms of:GDP growth and other principal performance indicatorsbuilding honest and competent institutions creating a more transparent and less corrupt system of cDocumentGetting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.DocumentThe World Bank and the environment in the Caspian: a case study of the Kolkheti National Park
BankWatch, 2002This report focuses on the construction of an oil terminal and related infrastructure inside one of Georgia’s national parks. The World Bank has a positive environmental objective in helping to finance the establishment of the Kolkheti National Park but this, the authors claim, is being undermined by the private development of the Kulevi Oil Terminal.DocumentFormal and informal institutions' lending policies and access to credit by small-scale enterprises in Kenya: an empirical assessment
African Economic Research Consortium, 2001The main objective of this study is to investigate and assess the role of the institutional lending policies of formal and informal credit institutions in determining the access to and use of credit facilities by small-scale entrepreneurs in rural Kenya.The results of the study show the limited use of credit reflects lack of supply, resulting from the rationing behaviour of both formal and infoDocumentEconomic Report on Africa 2002: tracking performance and progress
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002How did Africa’s economy perform in the global economic downturn of 2001?DocumentIncreasing trade and investment: policies, institutions, and development assistance
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002First in a series of USAID policy briefs which will "explore solutions to the challenges of international development".DocumentDoes local taxation make local government responsive to citizens?
Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2001There is considerable evidence that a significant cause of bad governance, especially in poorer countries, is that states are financed not from the 'earned income' that they derive from taxing their citizens, but rather from the 'unearned income' derived either from large mineral resources or, less significantly, large aid inflows.DocumentWhen do the rich willingly pay income tax?
Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002Brazil and South Africa have much in common. In particular, they are both large middle income countries with very high levels of income inequality where whites historically have dominated over blacks.They differ markedly in terms of the significance of income tax. Relatively little income tax is collected in Brazil (4% of GDP).