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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 34, Issue 11, Pages 1864-1886Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.11.020
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decentralization; natural resource management; forestry; local government; accountability; democratization
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Decentralization initiatives have been launched in the majority of developing countries, but these rarely lay the foundations necessary to reach decentralization's purported efficiency and equity benefits. This paper uses a comparative empirical approach to show how central governments in six countries-Senegal, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia, Bolivia, and Nicaragua-use a variety of strategies to obstruct the democratic decentralization of resource management and, hence, retain central control. Effective decentralization requires the construction of accountable institutions at all levels of government and a secure domain of autonomous decision making at the local level. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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