Participatory governance for poverty reduction

Hartmut Schneider
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Hartmut Schneider: OECD Development Centre, 2 rue Andre Pascal, 75775 Paris 16, France, Postal: OECD Development Centre, 2 rue Andre Pascal, 75775 Paris 16, France

Journal of International Development, 1999, vol. 11, issue 4, 521-534

Abstract: 'Development is too important simply to be left entirely at the discretion of the state's functionaries'. Mark Turner and David Hulme (1997) Governance, Administration and Development, London: MacMillan Press, p. 241.

Conventional poverty reduction strategies have produced disappointing results in many instances, especially in situations of high initial inequality which tend to reflect political obstacles to broad-based development. Participatory governance draws on insights from political and institutional economics and from experiments promoted by social activists. It represents a paradigm shift based on the trilogy of empowerment, accountability and capacity building which constitute the interdependent building blocks of participatory governance. Their role is threefold: i) to ensure that policy makers and their administration are more committed than they tend to be in non-participatory governance settings; ii) to base policies on better information; and iii) to make the implementation of policies more effective and efficient. 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199906)11:4<521::AID-JID599>3.0.CO;2-J

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