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    Laying the foundations: the role of data collection in the monitoring systems of development NGOs

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 2000
    How can smaller NGOs collect monitoring and evaluation data which data is accurate and meaningful? Where does their capacity need to be improved?The paperargues that the development community as a whole pays insufficient attention to the processes of data collection and analysis that enable organisations to generate accurate, high-quality information at field level.
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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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    The progress of policy reform and variations in performance at the sub-national level in India

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
    The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms.
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    Who governs the global environment?

    Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2000
    Planet-wide environmental problems like climate change and depletion of the ozone layer first became common knowledge and mainstream political concerns in the early 1990's, partly through the public and media debates surrounding the Earth Summit. Many assumed that solutions would mainly be up to governments co-operating at international level.
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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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    Decentralization and public sector delivery of health and education services: The Indian experience

    Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2000
    The paper has two main objectives. The first is to trace the progress in the process of decentralization in the provision of public services in India.
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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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    Distributive politics and the benefits of decentralisation

    Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
    This paper integrates the distributive politics literature with the literature on decentralization by incorporating inter-regional project externalities into a standard model of distributive policy. A key finding is that the degree of uniformity (or "universalism'') of the provision of regional projects is endogenous, and depends on the strength of the externality.The welfare benefits of dec

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