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5 February 2008
Published by: Sage Publications
The volume suggests that many of the social and political processes at work need to be understood simultaneously from both supra- and subnational perspectives.
27 March 2007
Published by: Oxford University Press
Pakistan’s Local Government Ordinance (LGO 2001) has strengthened electoral decentralization and expenditure devolution and there is reason to believe that the design features of the reform would reduce spatial and social inequality by reducing gaps in provision between villages within a union council, and between social and income groups within a village.
5 February 2007
Published by: Asian Development Bank
This paper provides an account of social structures in rural Pakistan with reference to qual- itative and quantitative data from seven villages spread across distinct sociocultural and agro-eco- nomic zones in the country. The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, it attempts to pro- vide a conceptual framework and empirical con- tent to explain societal patterns and social organi- zation in rural Pakistan.
15 January 2007
Published by: IDS
1 January 2007
Published by: IDS
Does the devolution of responsibility for service provision to elected local authorities improve the delivery of services to the poor? This is the major challenge of democratic decentralisation and a key benchmark for assessment. Many governments devolve power and resources to local bodies which assume responsibility for health, education and other essential services
4 January 2005
Published by: Orient Longman
In a comparative study, Shandana Khan Mohmand examines Pakistan’s decentralization plan and finds that owing to some basic structural flaws in the plan, decetralisation in Pakistan though representative is not necessarily participatory.
12 January 2004
Published by: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
12 January 2004
Published by: LUMS-McGill
8 January 2001
Published by: United Nations
A report for the 2002 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report Office.