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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Local Government and Rural Development Review
Author: Local Governments and Rural Development
Author: Krister AnderssonPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816527014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades. Experts blame excessively centralized public administrations for the lackluster performance of public policy initiatives. In response, decentralization reformshave become a common government strategy for improving public sector performance in rural areas. The effect of these reforms is a topic of considerable debate among government officials, policy scholars, and citizensÕ groups. This book offers a systematic analysis of how local governments and farmer groups in Latin America are actually faring today. Based on interviews with more than 1,200 mayors, local officials, and farmers in 390 municipal territories in four Latin American nations, the authors analyze the ways in which different forms of decentralization affect the governance arrangements for rural development Òon the ground.Ó Their comparative analysis suggests that rural development outcomes are systemically linked to locally negotiated institutional arrangementsÑformal and informalÑbetween government officials, NGOs, and farmer groups that operate in the local sphere. They find that local-government actors contribute to public services that better assist the rural poor when local actors cooperate to develop their own institutional arrangements for participatory planning, horizontal learning, and the joint production of services. This study brings substantive data and empirical analysis to a discussion that has, until now, more often depended on qualitative research in isolated cases. With more than 60 percent of Latin AmericaÕs rural population living in poverty, the results are both timely and crucial.
Local Government & Rural Development
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ISBN: 9789694141442
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Financial Management for Local Governments
Author: Rural Local Governance and Development
Author: Mahi PalPublisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789353287207
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"Rural Local Governance and Development introduces its readers to the concept of governance and various aspects of the Panchayat Raj Institutions, including Panchayats in the Fifth Scheduled Areas and the institutional arrangements in the Sixth and other Scheduled Areas. The book also focusses on the role of voluntary and community-based organizations, along with the participation of vulnerable groups and their involvement in the implementation of various programmes and schemes, strategies and policy instruments in rural development. Covering wider aspects of rural governance and development, this book provides knowledge of how people, communities, institutions and PRIs plan and implement development in rural India. The balanced blend of both theory and field insights make this textbook relevant to not only students of public administration, political science and development administration but also practitioners, civil society actors and researchers"--
Size Economies in Local Government Services
Author: William F. FoxPublisher:
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Size Economies in Local Government Services
Author: William Freeman FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Local Government in Rural America
Author: Clyde Frank SniderPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
OECD Rural Policy Reviews Strategies to Improve Rural Service Delivery
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264083960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the underlying problems in delivering services to rural regions.
Capacity Building (management Improvement) for Local Governments
Author: Beth Walter HonadlePublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description