Participatory Development Reconsidered

Over the last two decades development policy has touted civic participation as a magic bullet for solving problems at the local level—from improving livelihoods, to selecting beneficiaries for public programs, providing housing after earthquakes and floods, or improving village infrastructure. The thinking is that involving village or urban civic communities in decision making will improve accountability, reduce inequality, and ultimately alleviate poverty.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Mansuri, Ghazala ; Rao, Vijayendra
Published in:	Development Outreach. - World Bank, ISSN 1020-797X, ZDB-ID 2073983-7. - Vol. 13.2011, 1, p. 64-69
Publisher:	World Bank
Subject:	COMMUNITIES \| COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT \| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT \| COMMUNITY GROUPS \| COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION \| ENGINEER \| HOUSING \| LOCAL COMMUNITIES \| LOCAL GOVERNMENTS \| LOCAL PARTICIPATION \| LOCALITIES \| MULTILATERAL AGENCIES \| NEIGHBORHOOD \| NEIGHBORHOODS \| OUTREACH \| PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT \| SOCIAL CAPITAL \| SOCIAL STRUCTURES \| VILLAGE COMMUNITIES \| VILLAGES

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	research-article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1596/1020-797X_13_1_64 [DOI]
Source:	Other ZBW resources

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