Introduction : on commons in a "glocal" world : linking local and global systems, power processes and local reactions in the management of common pool resources / Tobias Haller, Thomas Breu, Christian Rohr, Tine de Moor and Heinzpeter Znoj -- Shared ownership as key issue of swiss history :...

In Localizing Development, Mansuri and Rao survey theory and evidence for development strategies based on local community empowerment. This note extends their theoretical argument by focusing on local government as a vital source of new leadership. Local leaders who provide better public service...

Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...