The sharpening poverty contradictions and their links to a larger governance reality is the theme of this book …

developing countries, and to identify obstacles to such involvement. Participants agreed that civil society's role in poverty …-society participation in policy making not only enhances efficiency in implementation, but also contributes to the creation of more …

of Unit Committees in Promoting Popular Participation -- Chapter 8. Sub-National Structures, Poverty Reduction and Rural … -- Part II. Institutional Choice, Representation, Poverty Reduction and Local Development -- Chapter 5. Towards the Election … Responsive Healthcare in Ghana -- Chapter 13. Fiscal Decentralization with Autonomy for Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction in …

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción, on … participation in the 2010 presidential elections by increasing the probability that program beneficiaries registered to vote and … political and legislative mechanisms, as the laws recently passed by the Colombian government, that avoid successful anti-poverty …