Decentralisation has been advocated by donors and development agencies as an
instrument to ensure broader participation of citizens as well as to improve local governance …

By 2030 more than sixty percent of the world's population will live in urban areas, with most
of the world's population growth over the next twenty-five years being absorbed by cities and …

This article introduces a collection of papers that provide empirical studies of the impacts
that result from changes to established modes of governance: in particular, decentralizing …

Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when
the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development …

Although several semi-arid African countries are decentralizing water services and
attempting to increase the participation of local actors in water resource management, how …

For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural
areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban …

This article argues that the common narrative of a Bolivian backlash against neoliberalism
should be reconsidered in light of the continuities and mutual constraints between popular …

The overall objective of this research was to determine whether and how the institutional
environment influences the establishment and performance of Community Forest …

This paper demonstrates that recent protests in Bolivia must be linked to the failure of efforts
to improve democratic participation in the country. It argues that such failures can be traced …

Development planning until the mid-1970s has generally been a hierarchical top-down
process. This top-down approach or centralised development policymaking and planning …