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100			_aDevine, Joseph
245			_aEthnography of a policy process: a case study of land redistribution in Bangladesh
260			_c2002
300			_ap.403-14.
362			_aDec
520			_aThroughout the developing world, Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are involved in various aspects of an increasing number of policy interventions. The donor community has lent considerable support to this strategy. One of the key assumptions behind the strategy is that the greater involvement of NGOs in policy processes will result in more resources being distributed to the poor, and will also facilitate the establishment of a policy process which is more inclusive and egalitarian. Here the involvement of NGOs in an important land redistribution policy initiative is used to examine both these assumptions. While there is strong evidence that more land was redistributed to the poor as a result of NGO invol vement, the actual mechanism or process for deciding the distribution of land was not found to be all inclusive or completely egalitarian. These ambivalence as a timely critique to the naive optimism and simplified assumptions underpinning development thinking and practice. - Reproduced.
650			_aEthnology
650			_aLand tenure - Case studies
650			_aLand tenure - Bangladesh
650			_aLand tenure
773			_aPublic Administration and Development
909			_a55190
999			_c55190 _d55190