This paper seeks to propose monitoring and evaluation method for the County governments in Kenya, which are regarded as a solution to balanced distribution of resources to the grassroots of the Kenyan populace. County governments in Kenya are a new phenomenon having been introduced by the...

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted on 7th September 2005. The act is one of the largest right-based social protections that guarantees wage employment of 100 days in a year to the rural poor that they can expect to earn a living wage, without loss of...

En América Latina y el Caribe la planificación del desarrollo vuelve a ocupar espacios de la política pública cedidos antes al mercado. La transición de modelos de desarrollo y las tendencias mundiales que marcan el siglo XXI indican que gobernar ha de significar, primordialmente, preparar...

In this paper, we examine the economic policies that might allow a developing rural economy to escape from the poverty trap characterized by a subsistence level of per capita consumption in the long run. In our model where labour is combined to land available in fixed quantity to produce a...

Following a current trend, the UNDP's Human Development Report 2013 promoted the middle class(es) as an important new factor in development. The limitations of this category and its role in the context of Africa are at the core of this contribution.

This articles highlights issues such as planning, benefits, sustainability and difficulties of local populations with regard to tourism. It describes the municipality of Suesca, detailing tourism taking place in the area and presents a diagnosis (including a swot analysis) specifying resources,...

The research examines the application of local good governance (LGG) in the implementation of rural infrastructure development planning (RIDP) and analyzes its strengths and limitations. Two communes with longer and shorter working experience in the application of LGG in RIDP, viz. Khnach Romeas...