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100			_aSteiner, Susan
245			_aDecentralisation and poverty: conceptual framework and application to Uganda
260			_c2007
300			_ap.175-85.
362			_aMay
520			_aIn order to shed further light on the discussion about decentralisation-poverty linkages in developing countries, this article introduces a conceptual framework for the relationship between decentralisation and poverty. The framework takes the form of an optimal scenario and indicates potential ways for an impact of decentralisation on poverty. Three different but interrelated channels are identified. Decentralisation is considered to affect poverty through providing opportyunities for previously excluded people to participate in public decision-making, through increasing efficiency in the provision of local public services due to an informational advantage of local governments over the central government and through granting autonomy to geographically separable conflict groups and entitling local bodies to resolve local-level conflicts. Based on the experience with decentralisation in Uganda, it is shown that these channels are often not fully realised in practice. Different reasons are singled out for the Ugandan case, among them low levels of information about local government affairs, limited human capital and financial resources, restricted local autonomy, corruption and patronage, high administrative costs related with decentralisation and low downward accountability. - Reproduced.
650			_aDecentralization - Uganda
650			_aPoverty - Ugenda
650			_aPoverty
773			_aPublic Administration and Development
908			_aN
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