Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives of Decentralization and Local Governance -- Chapter 1. From Deconcentration to Devolution: Tracking the Historical Trajectory of Democratic Decentralization in Ghana -- Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development...

Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms...

Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in other Somali-inhabited regions of the eastern Horn, and have been especially present at the local and municipal level. The most effective aid to institution-building in Somalia has...

This paper investigates the local effects of mining on the quality of public services and on people's optimism about their future living conditions. It also assesses the mediating role of local institutions and local governments 'taxing rights in shaping the proximity-to-mine effects. The...