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Examining relationships between customary and state institutions in Ghana's decentralized system:

Belden, Cory - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Traditional authorities are powerful leaders alongside the state in Ghana. The chieftaincy has been resilient to “modernization”—maintaining land rights, allegiance from citizens, and influence in rural communities. Nonetheless, there are few rules defining their official role in the local...

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Opportunities and challenges of community-based rural drinking water supplies: An analysis of water and sanitation committees in Ghana

Sun, Yan; Asante, Felix; Birner, Regina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Providing safe drinking water in rural areas is a major challenge because it is not easy to establish institutional arrangements that will ensure that drinking water facilities are provided, maintained, and managed in an efficient, equitable, and sustainable way. Like many other countries, Ghana...

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In pursuit of votes: The capture of the allocation of local public goods by the central state in Ghana

Horowitz, Leah; Palaniswamy, Nethra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Decentralization reforms have been the overwhelming response to failures in the targeting of public resources by the … central state in developing countries. The policy debate on decentralization typically revolves around several a priori … decentralized public-resource allocation in Ghana. The decentralization policy debate in Ghana, as elsewhere, typically focuses on …

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Decentralization of public-sector agricultural extension in India: The case of the district-level Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA)

Glendenning, Claire J.; Babu, Suresh C - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

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Decentralization and rural service delivery in Uganda:

Bashaasha, Bernard; Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

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Agricultural extension services and gender equality: An institutional analysis of four districts in Ethiopia

Cohen, Marc J.; Lemma, Mamusha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

provision more responsive to users. Ethiopia has undertaken two rounds of decentralization, making first the regional states and … then the district governments responsible for providing key public services. This paper explores whether decentralization …

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Decentralization and public service delivery in Nigeria:

Okojie, Christiana - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

that rural areas have sizes below this cut-off (Onokerhoraye 1984). Decentralization has become a key issue in development … policy in the last two decades. Decentralization is a process of transitioning from a governance structure in which power is …

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Evolving public expenditure in Chinese agriculture: Definition, pattern, composition, and mechanism:

Yu, Bingxin; Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Yumei; Zhang, Haisen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

high decentralization and substantial intergovernmental transfer. The highly decentralized and hierarchical administrative …

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Agricultural extension services and gender equality: An institutional analysis of four districts in Ethiopia

Cohen, Marc J.; Lemma, Mamusha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

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Decentralization and local public services in Ghana: Do geography and ethnic diversity matter?

Akramov, Kamiljon T.; Asante, Felix Ankomah - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"This paper explores disparities in local public service provision between decentralized districts in Ghana using district- and household-level data. The empirical results show that districts' geographic locations play a major role in shaping disparities in access to local public services in...

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