Decentralisation and poverty reduction in Africa: the politics of local–central relations
By R. Crook. 2003
517 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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In Political Science and International Relations
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- Aniruddha Dasgupta
- S. Benin
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- Tewodaj Mogues
In Sociology and Political Science
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- Arun Agrawal
Citations in the corpus
- Decentralization and Participation: The Governance of Common Pool Resources in Nepal’s Terai (2005, background): “…equality that allow the poor to trade their shares of benefits from the commons , require membership of lower-caste groups in the decision-making committees of local user groups, or argue for greater accountability of decision makers (Adhikari et al., 2004; Crook, 2003; Nightingale, 2002).”
- Decentralisation in Africa: a pathway out of poverty and conflict? (2008, background): “Crook and Sverrisson (2001) and Crook (2003) take a slightly different tack by seeking to explain differing poverty outcomes, both positive and negative.”
- Community Driven Development, Collective Action and Elite Capture in Indonesia (2007, background): “…(2000); Baland and Platteau (1999); Bardhan (2002); Bardhan and Mookherjee (2000, 2002); Bienen et al. (1990); Blair (2000); Conning and Kevane (2002); Crook (2003); Das Gupta et al. (2004); Ebrahim (2003); Fung and Wright (2003); Olowu (2003); Platteau (2004); Shatkin (2004); Vedeld (2000).”
- Do External Grants to District Governments Discourage Own Revenue Generation? A Look at Local Public Finance Dynamics in Ghana (2012, background): “This points to the need for a careful review of Ghana’s fiscal transfer mechanisms in light of the central government’s goal to encourage districts to contribute to rural development through effective local public spending and public service provision.”
- Local government decision‐making—citizen participation and local accountability: some evidence from Kenya and Uganda (2003, background): “Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.”
- Can REDD+ social safeguards reach the ‘right’ people? Lessons from Madagascar (2016, background): “We interpret this as evidence of local elite capture, a common problem identified in conservation and development projects (Crook, 2003; Olowu, 2003; Platteau and Gaspart, 2003; Pollini et al., 2014; Sommerville et al., 2010), as well as of systematic bias in the assessment process favouring more…”