discusses the factors which can facilitate the development of accountability and participatory governance mechanisms. Lessons … impact of participatory governance on policymaking, while emerging, is still a work in progress. The paper concludes with … recommendations for how developing country societies might sustain real achievements in participatory governance and domestic …

as well as its participation effect. The paper assesses how these effects compare between agriculture and non-agriculture …. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely … to be smaller than that of non-agriculture (though not because of inherently inferior productivity growth), the indirect …

up speed after a tightening of aid by donors on governance grounds and an attempt to re-establish credibility following …

educational investment, financial depth, inflation stabilization, public infrastructure, governance, labor-market flexibility …

, the introduction of positive real interest rates, trade liberalization, and initial property rights reform in agriculture … governance indicators, financial sector issues, and the infrastructure of international integration reveals serious institutional …

services sector was substantially more poverty-reducing than was growth in either agriculture or industry. Growth in industry …