Local Governance and Poverty in Developing Nations

Nicky Pouw, Isa Baud

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415887328
• eBook ISBN: 9781136480812
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies. It brings together a rich variety of in-depth country and international studies, based on a combination of original data-collection and extensive research experience in developing countries. Taking a bottom-up and multi-dimensional perspective of poverty and well-being as the starting point, the authors develop a convincing set of arguments for putting the priorities of poor people first on any development agenda, thus carving out an undisputable role for local governance in interplay with higher-up governance actors and institutions.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Routledge Studies in Development and Society
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures, Maps, and Boxes
• List of Tables
• Permission Rights
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• PART I Researching Well-Being
• PART II Rural Poverty, Priorities and Governance Responses
• PART III Urban Poverty, Citizenship and Democracy
• PART IV The Role of Local and National Institutions
• Contributors
• Index