Participatory Development in the Presence of Endogenous Community Imperfections

By J. Platteau, A. Abraham. 2002

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Monitoring Elite Capture in Community‐Driven Development (2004, background): “…far as we can judge from recent surveys (Conning and Kevane 2002 ; Bardhan 2002 ; Mansuri and Rao 2003), available evidence does not justify the speed and the enthusiasm with which many agencies, especially large bureaucracies, have started to implement CDD (Platteau and Abraham 2001, 2002, 2003).”
For Reducing Poverty Faster: Target Reasons Before People (2007, background): “…danger is that this knowledge may not be appropriately utilized; in fact, inequality within a village may actually worsen if local elites capture processes of decision making and benefit allocation (Conning & Kevane, 2002; Galasso & Ravallion, 2002; Pender & Ruben, 2004; Platteau & Abraham, 2002).”
Assessing community-based conservation projects: A systematic review and multilevel analysis of attitudinal, behavioral, ecological, and economic outcomes (2013, background): “In addition to the straight-forward skills that may be necessary to maintain the project, Baland and Abraham [46] argue that capacity building may also help combat elite capture by ensuring that project finances are not simply funneled to a handful of local leaders.”
Against the local trap: scale and the study of environment and development (2005, background): “But frequently the idea of participation is equated with localization of decision-making (Platteau and Abraham, 2002).”
Do Village Organizations Make a Difference in African Rural Development? A Study for Senegal and Burkina Faso (2008, background): “The literature often mentions the problems of local elite capture and corruption by leaders as sources of inefficiency in local development projects (e.g., Platteau and Abraham, 2002).”
Can the Design of Community-Driven Development Reduce the Risk of Elite Capture? Evidence from Indonesia (2007, background): “…forms and community-level politics – whether the latter is characterized by mutual adjustment or struggles for domination – remains indeterminate and demanding of interpretation in specific cases, a point emphasized by Platteau and Abraham (2002) when examining ‘endogenous community imperfections’.”
The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil (2014, background): “…authors, who stress the potential for local capture and exacerbation of pre-existing inequalities (Bardhan & Mookherjee, 2000; Mosse, 2001; Platteau & Abraham, 2002) and a loss of technical efficiency (Bardhan & Mookherjee, 2006; Brett, 2003; Oakley, 1995) that can result from “shifting…”
The private sector's role in agricultural extension systems: potential and limitations (2011, background): “However, community-based organizations are not immune to mismanaging funds ( Platteau and Abraham, 2002”
The Risk of Resource Misappropriation in Community-Driven Development (2003, background): “Participatory development, therefore, “cannot be treated as a process in which facilitators merely ‘enable’ local people to do what they would have wanted to do anyway” (ibidem; in the same vein, see Platteau and Abraham, 2002; forthcoming).”