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Can Local Government Work for the Poor? - IFPRI Forum, March 2007
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. " International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI Home About Contact Careers Search Publications Research 2020 Vision Countries Publications Datasets Library Events Media Learning IFPRI Publications 2020 Publications Search our Database Articles & Book Chapters Datasets Other Languages Order Form IFPRI Home >> Publications >> Newsletters Table of Contents Can Local Government Work for the Poor? Focus on West and Central Africa Intensifies Linking South Asia's Farms to High-Value Food Markets Commentary: Focus on the World's Poor and Hungry Left Behind Interview with Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director Commentary: Media and Development Cartography and Development: the Ethiopia Atlas Recent Awards Recent Publications (PDF 75K) IFPRI Forum March 2007 Download (PDF 500K) Order Can Local Government Work for the Poor? Many developing countries are turning over functions formerly carried out by the central government to local governments. Can decentralization make government work better for poor people? In 1994, when Jean-Paul Faguet, then working at the World Bank, heard about Bolivia's plan to empower local communities, he was skeptical. Although the plan was called Law of Popular Participation, it was designed by a small group at the central government level behind closed doors. "Popular participation" sounded good, of course, but Faguet doubted that it could simply be imposed from above. What will they legislate next, he and his colleagues at the Bank asked themselves—wealth and happiness for everyone? In fact, says Faguet, now a researcher and lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE), Bolivia made government more responsive to poor people in many communities and directed resources to the services poor people desired. "Decentralization put real power over public resources in the hands of ordinary citizens," Faguet says. "It changed the way the co" .... read entire page
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