Balancing Rural Poverty Reduction and Citizen Participation: The Contradictions of Uganda's Decentralization Program

By P. Francis, R. James. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Four African Countries (2004, neutral): “Yet these powers may result in tax and license burdens that block and disable wealth generation in rural areas, and counteract other efforts to reduce rural poverty [ Francis and James, 2003 ].”
• Returns to spending on agricultural extension: the case of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program of Uganda† (2011, background): “For example, the proportion of local government budgets allocated to agricultural production and marketing was only up to 3% (Francis and James, 2003).”
• Does Decentralisation Improve Equity and Efficiency in Public Service Delivery Provision (2007, background): “…to arrest the deterioration in agricultural services, and that the improvements in social services are attributable to increases in central conditional funding rather than the very limited scope which decentralized institutions have provided for local decision making’ (Francis and James 2003: 333).”
• Assessing the Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) in the Uganda Rural Livelihoods (2007, background): “For example, the proportion of district budgets allocated to agricultural production and marketing in three districts studied by Francis and James (2003) was 3% or less, while at the sub-county level, the proportions are even smaller.”
• Decentralization's Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia (2008, neutral): “Bahiigwa, Rigby and Woodhouse (2005) and Francis and James (2003) show that”
• Decentralization, forests and livelihoods: Theory and narrative (2007, background): “Numerous studies have shown that seldom decentralization has brought about improved governance through the promotion of local accountability and transparency and by enfranchising local populations (Francis and James, 2003).”
• Right Target, Wrong Mechanism? Agricultural Modernization and Poverty Reduction in Uganda (2005, background): “Conversely, however, there are relatively few reporting requirements regarding the use of the unconditional grants, most of which are spent on general administrative costs (Francis and James, 2003), or the use of locally-raised revenue.”
• Does Greater Accountability Improve the Quality of Public Service Delivery? Evidence from Uganda (2005, background): “1 Problems in public financial management have been identified as an important constraint to further growth which, together with low levels of transparency and accountability are potential obstacles to continued progress in reducing poverty (Francis & James, 2003; World Bank, 2003).”