approach suggest that decentralisation did not lead to wider household access to poverty alleviation programmes during the 1990 … decentralisation, that is, decentralisation did not necessarily contribute to the improvement of the welfare of the socially …

that decentralisation did not lead to wider household access to poverty alleviation programmes during the 1990s. Our … results imply the possibility that the power and resources were captured by the local elite after decentralisation, that is …, decentralization did not necessarily contribute to the improvement of the welfare of the socially disadvantaged groups. …