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  Decentralization and corruption: evidence across Countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  The relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties is an important element in the recent debate on institutional design.The theoretical literature makes ambiguous predictions about this relationship, and it has remained virtually unexamined by empiricists.
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  Rethinking the decentralisation and devolution of biodiversity conservation

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999

  This article challenges devolution and populist approaches to biodiversity conservation and forest management by examining several of the main assumptions on which they are based.The concept of partnership in conservation is based on the following, often contested,assumptions: local populations are interested and skilled in sustainable forest resource use and conservation;contempo
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  Devolution and decentralisation of forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999

  Decentralization and devolution are dominant themes in the contemporary discussion of forest policy.
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  Godsend, sleight of hand or just muddling through: joint water and forest management in India

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  This paper lays out the complex politics underpinning joint management and identifies the potential for, and route towards more, if gradual, decentralisation in the future.The paper draws the following conclusions: Conventional analyses of joint management are rooted in organisational theory; their apolitical character severely limits their explanatory powerJoint management arrange
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  The effectiveness of decentralization in Hungary and Slovakia

  International Monetary Fund, 2000

  This paper contrasts decentralization in Hungary, one of the most decentralized countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and in Slovakia, one of the least decentralized, during the decade of transition from socialism to market.
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  Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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  Community based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.
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  Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.
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  Democratic decentralisation

  Center for International Development, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), 1997

  suggests that the strategic objective that democratic decentralization serves is to broaden legitimacy, transparency, and accountability within the political systems of the countries where the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing development assistance.Article explores Research Triangle Institute's (RTI) engagement in a task to clarify how and under what circu
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  Kingship, bureaucracy and participation: competing moralities of ‘decentralisation’ in south Indian irrigation

  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000

  This paper attempts a long view of decentralisation in irrigation management in parts of south India. In doing so, it has attempted to place present day ‘Participatory Irrigation Management’ in perspective, particularly by drawing attention to antecedent forms of ‘decentralisation’ and suggesting that some of the practices and moralities involved persist today.

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