How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages : The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has implemented numerous institutional changes over the past fifteen years with the avowed aim of bringing government closer to the people, improving accountability and, by extension, local infrastructure development and serv...
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ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT BENEFICIARIES BLOCK GRANTS CANDIDATES CAPITAL PROJECTS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CLINICS COEFFICIENTS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY PROJECTS CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUENT COUNCILORS DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DISTRICT DISTRICT GOVERNMENT DISTRICT LEVEL DISTRICT OFFICIALS DISTRICT-LEVEL DISTRICTS ELECTION ELECTIONS ELECTORAL SYSTEM ELECTORATE ELECTORATES EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURE TRACKING FEMALE FEMALES GENDER GOVERNOR GOVERNORS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HOUSING INCOME INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAWS LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT LIVELIHOODS LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL OFFICIALS LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS LOCALITIES MATCHING GRANTS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT MP NATIONAL PARLIAMENT NGO OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONS PARLIAMENT PER CAPITA INCOME PERFORMANCE MONITORING POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY FACTORS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY PROGRAMS PROVINCE PROVINCES PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR PROVINCIAL GOVERNORS PUBLIC PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC WORKS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REGRESSION ANALYSIS REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION SERVICE DELIVERY SEWAGE SOCIAL AUDITS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION STATE LAW STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUB-NATIONAL TARGETING TRANSPARENCY VILLAGE VILLAGES VOTERS YOUTH |
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ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT BENEFICIARIES BLOCK GRANTS CANDIDATES CAPITAL PROJECTS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CLINICS COEFFICIENTS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY PROJECTS CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUENT COUNCILORS DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DISTRICT DISTRICT GOVERNMENT DISTRICT LEVEL DISTRICT OFFICIALS DISTRICT-LEVEL DISTRICTS ELECTION ELECTIONS ELECTORAL SYSTEM ELECTORATE ELECTORATES EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURE TRACKING FEMALE FEMALES GENDER GOVERNOR GOVERNORS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HOUSING INCOME INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAWS LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT LIVELIHOODS LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL OFFICIALS LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS LOCALITIES MATCHING GRANTS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT MP NATIONAL PARLIAMENT NGO OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONS PARLIAMENT PER CAPITA INCOME PERFORMANCE MONITORING POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY FACTORS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY PROGRAMS PROVINCE PROVINCES PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR PROVINCIAL GOVERNORS PUBLIC PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC WORKS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REGRESSION ANALYSIS REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION SERVICE DELIVERY SEWAGE SOCIAL AUDITS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION STATE LAW STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUB-NATIONAL TARGETING TRANSPARENCY VILLAGE VILLAGES VOTERS YOUTH Hasnain, Zahid Keefer, Philip Menzies, Nicholas How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages : The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics |
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Papua New Guinea (PNG) has implemented
numerous institutional changes over the past fifteen years
with the avowed aim of bringing government closer to the
people, improving accountability and, by extension, local
infrastructure development and service delivery. To date
however, there has been little empirical evidence to
establish whether these changes have impacted the provision
of local infrastructure. Similarly, there is little
empirical evidence revealing the main political economy
factors that influence the way that resources are actually
planned, spent, and impact communities at the sub-national
level. This report investigates the determinants of local
infrastructure projects at the ward level, the lowest level
of government in PNG, to assess the impact of these
institutional changes and to identify the importance of
other factors, in particular local collective action. It
does this through a survey covering more than 1000
households across 49 yards in nine PNG districts. It also
presents descriptive statistics on the basic characteristics
of the households that were surveyed, their knowledge of
local level institutions, their participation in groups, and
their voting behavior. The report explores especially the
determinants of variation within districts in terms of the
presence of new projects. Common wisdom in PNG suggests that
the home wards of Members of Parliament (MPs) should be
especially favored with projects. In six districts, the data
includes this ward; these six home wards are no different
from other wards in their district with respect to the
presence of new projects. The survey asked questions about
electoral behavior, the provision of cash and other gifts in
exchange for votes and electoral violence. The survey found
significant inter-district variation, with vote-buying
dramatically higher in the three Highlands districts, where
42 percent of respondents report receiving cash, compared to
9 percent in the other districts. Within districts,
vote-buying and the provision of local public works projects
are inversely related. Vote-buying is also far more common
in the three districts that exhibit the most electoral violence. |
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Economic & Sector Work :: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report |
| author |
Hasnain, Zahid Keefer, Philip Menzies, Nicholas |
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Hasnain, Zahid Keefer, Philip Menzies, Nicholas |
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Hasnain, Zahid |
| title |
How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages : The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics |
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How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages : The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics |
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How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages : The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics |
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How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages : The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics |
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How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages : The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics |
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how capital projects are allocated in papua new guinean villages : the influence of local collective action, local-level institutions, and electoral politics |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2013 |
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okr-10986-128252021-04-23T14:03:04Z How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages : The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics Hasnain, Zahid Keefer, Philip Menzies, Nicholas ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT BENEFICIARIES BLOCK GRANTS CANDIDATES CAPITAL PROJECTS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CLINICS COEFFICIENTS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY PROJECTS CONSTITUENCIES CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUENT COUNCILORS DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DISTRICT DISTRICT GOVERNMENT DISTRICT LEVEL DISTRICT OFFICIALS DISTRICT-LEVEL DISTRICTS ELECTION ELECTIONS ELECTORAL SYSTEM ELECTORATE ELECTORATES EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURE TRACKING FEMALE FEMALES GENDER GOVERNOR GOVERNORS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HOUSING INCOME INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAWS LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT LIVELIHOODS LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL OFFICIALS LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS LOCALITIES MATCHING GRANTS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT MP NATIONAL PARLIAMENT NGO OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONS PARLIAMENT PER CAPITA INCOME PERFORMANCE MONITORING POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY FACTORS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY PROGRAMS PROVINCE PROVINCES PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR PROVINCIAL GOVERNORS PUBLIC PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC WORKS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REGRESSION ANALYSIS REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION SERVICE DELIVERY SEWAGE SOCIAL AUDITS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION STATE LAW STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUB-NATIONAL TARGETING TRANSPARENCY VILLAGE VILLAGES VOTERS YOUTH Papua New Guinea (PNG) has implemented numerous institutional changes over the past fifteen years with the avowed aim of bringing government closer to the people, improving accountability and, by extension, local infrastructure development and service delivery. To date however, there has been little empirical evidence to establish whether these changes have impacted the provision of local infrastructure. Similarly, there is little empirical evidence revealing the main political economy factors that influence the way that resources are actually planned, spent, and impact communities at the sub-national level. This report investigates the determinants of local infrastructure projects at the ward level, the lowest level of government in PNG, to assess the impact of these institutional changes and to identify the importance of other factors, in particular local collective action. It does this through a survey covering more than 1000 households across 49 yards in nine PNG districts. It also presents descriptive statistics on the basic characteristics of the households that were surveyed, their knowledge of local level institutions, their participation in groups, and their voting behavior. The report explores especially the determinants of variation within districts in terms of the presence of new projects. Common wisdom in PNG suggests that the home wards of Members of Parliament (MPs) should be especially favored with projects. In six districts, the data includes this ward; these six home wards are no different from other wards in their district with respect to the presence of new projects. The survey asked questions about electoral behavior, the provision of cash and other gifts in exchange for votes and electoral violence. The survey found significant inter-district variation, with vote-buying dramatically higher in the three Highlands districts, where 42 percent of respondents report receiving cash, compared to 9 percent in the other districts. Within districts, vote-buying and the provision of local public works projects are inversely related. Vote-buying is also far more common in the three districts that exhibit the most electoral violence. 2013-03-21T15:18:37Z 2013-03-21T15:18:37Z 2011-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/08/16420888/capital-projects-allocated-papua-new-guinean-villages-influence-local-collective-action-local-level-institutions-electoral-politics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12825 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific Papua New Guinea |