Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso
The authors present evidence that in Burkina Faso, certain high-performing local institutions contribute to equitable economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty, and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization. The s...
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ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY LEVEL COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONSENSUS CROPS DATA SET DATA SETS DECENTRALIZATION DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS DECISION-MAKING DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES DEVELOPMENT NETWORK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMICS ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS EXCLUDED GROUPS EXPENDITURE FEDERATIONS FIELD RESEARCH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOOD SECURITY GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE GROWTH PATH HEALTH CENTERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT INCOME INCOME LEVELS INDIGENOUS INSTITUTIONS INEQUALITY INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS LANDS LEGITIMACY LIVING CONDITIONS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL COUNCILS LOCAL ELECTIONS LOCAL GOVERNANCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS LOCAL LANGUAGES LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL LEVEL INSTITUTIONS LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS LOCAL PEOPLE NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL LEVELS NATIONAL POLICIES NATIONAL RESEARCH NATURAL RESOURCES PARTICIPATORY ACTION PARTICIPATORY ANALYSIS PARTICIPATORY APPROACH PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL PARTIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PROPAGANDA QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS REDUCING POVERTY RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS RESEARCH TEAM RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RESOURCE MOBILIZATION RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL FINANCE RURAL PEOPLE RURAL POPULATION SERVICE PROVISION SOCIAL ACTION SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL NORMS SOCIAL STABILITY STATE AGENCY STATE INTERVENTION SUSTAINABILITY TEAM LEADERS TRANSPARENCY URBAN AREAS |
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ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY LEVEL COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONSENSUS CROPS DATA SET DATA SETS DECENTRALIZATION DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS DECISION-MAKING DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES DEVELOPMENT NETWORK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMICS ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS EXCLUDED GROUPS EXPENDITURE FEDERATIONS FIELD RESEARCH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOOD SECURITY GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE GROWTH PATH HEALTH CENTERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT INCOME INCOME LEVELS INDIGENOUS INSTITUTIONS INEQUALITY INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS LANDS LEGITIMACY LIVING CONDITIONS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL COUNCILS LOCAL ELECTIONS LOCAL GOVERNANCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS LOCAL LANGUAGES LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL LEVEL INSTITUTIONS LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS LOCAL PEOPLE NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL LEVELS NATIONAL POLICIES NATIONAL RESEARCH NATURAL RESOURCES PARTICIPATORY ACTION PARTICIPATORY ANALYSIS PARTICIPATORY APPROACH PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL PARTIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PROPAGANDA QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS REDUCING POVERTY RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS RESEARCH TEAM RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RESOURCE MOBILIZATION RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL FINANCE RURAL PEOPLE RURAL POPULATION SERVICE PROVISION SOCIAL ACTION SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL NORMS SOCIAL STABILITY STATE AGENCY STATE INTERVENTION SUSTAINABILITY TEAM LEADERS TRANSPARENCY URBAN AREAS Donnelly-Roark, Paula Ouedraogo, Karim Ye, Xiao Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2677 |
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The authors present evidence that in
Burkina Faso, certain high-performing local institutions
contribute to equitable economic development. They link
reduced levels of poverty, and inequality to a high degree
of internal village organization. The structure of these
high-performing local organizations means they can exist in
a number of African countries, because they depend more on
internal participation, rather than on nay one
country's cultural assets. The authors find that: 1)
Service-asset management groups (SAMs) - one of three local
institutions identified in the study - have helped to
significantly reduce inequality in participating households.
SAMs are a fusion of long-standing development committees,
and indigenous management councils that collectively manage
community assets, such as water. SAMs have combined the
productivity goals of growth, with the values of equity, and
solidarity. 2) Current development approaches use growth as
an initiator, assuming that surpluses will be used to
benefit the poor. SAMs, and other local institutions in
Burkina Faso, start with equity, and solidarity, and aim for
a result of growth, and development. 3) Internal
participation is essential for SAMs to function. Only
locally anchored participation can power the realignments,
and institutional revisions needed to scale up development
action. SAMs, and other local institutions have launched
their communities on equitable growth paths, and are
reducing poverty with little, or no outside assistance,
despite severe resource constraints. Their impact could be
enormous if external development resources augmented their
potential. World Bank programs, and policy interventions
could build on local strength, and make their activities
more sustainable by mapping local institutions to guide new
initiatives in pro-poor investment, and using that mapping
to formalize, and increase internal local participation -
expanding nationwide by using a network of local
institutions. SAMs, and other local institutions, could be
the vehicle for ensuring transparency, and accountability.
Working with the results of local activities, national
policies could favor the development of indigenously based,
but externally oriented local economies. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Donnelly-Roark, Paula Ouedraogo, Karim Ye, Xiao |
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Donnelly-Roark, Paula Ouedraogo, Karim Ye, Xiao |
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Donnelly-Roark, Paula |
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Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso |
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Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso |
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Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso |
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Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso |
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Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso |
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can local institutions reduce poverty? rural decentralization in burkina faso |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/09/1614753/can-local-institutions-reduce-poverty-rural-decentralization-burkina-faso http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19551 |
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okr-10986-195512021-04-23T14:03:43Z Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso Donnelly-Roark, Paula Ouedraogo, Karim Ye, Xiao ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY LEVEL COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONSENSUS CROPS DATA SET DATA SETS DECENTRALIZATION DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS DECISION-MAKING DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES DEVELOPMENT NETWORK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMICS ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS EXCLUDED GROUPS EXPENDITURE FEDERATIONS FIELD RESEARCH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOOD SECURITY GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE GROWTH PATH HEALTH CENTERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT INCOME INCOME LEVELS INDIGENOUS INSTITUTIONS INEQUALITY INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS LANDS LEGITIMACY LIVING CONDITIONS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL COUNCILS LOCAL ELECTIONS LOCAL GOVERNANCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS LOCAL LANGUAGES LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL LEVEL INSTITUTIONS LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS LOCAL PEOPLE NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL LEVELS NATIONAL POLICIES NATIONAL RESEARCH NATURAL RESOURCES PARTICIPATORY ACTION PARTICIPATORY ANALYSIS PARTICIPATORY APPROACH PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL PARTIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PROPAGANDA QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS REDUCING POVERTY RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS RESEARCH TEAM RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RESOURCE MOBILIZATION RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL FINANCE RURAL PEOPLE RURAL POPULATION SERVICE PROVISION SOCIAL ACTION SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL NORMS SOCIAL STABILITY STATE AGENCY STATE INTERVENTION SUSTAINABILITY TEAM LEADERS TRANSPARENCY URBAN AREAS The authors present evidence that in Burkina Faso, certain high-performing local institutions contribute to equitable economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty, and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization. The structure of these high-performing local organizations means they can exist in a number of African countries, because they depend more on internal participation, rather than on nay one country's cultural assets. The authors find that: 1) Service-asset management groups (SAMs) - one of three local institutions identified in the study - have helped to significantly reduce inequality in participating households. SAMs are a fusion of long-standing development committees, and indigenous management councils that collectively manage community assets, such as water. SAMs have combined the productivity goals of growth, with the values of equity, and solidarity. 2) Current development approaches use growth as an initiator, assuming that surpluses will be used to benefit the poor. SAMs, and other local institutions in Burkina Faso, start with equity, and solidarity, and aim for a result of growth, and development. 3) Internal participation is essential for SAMs to function. Only locally anchored participation can power the realignments, and institutional revisions needed to scale up development action. SAMs, and other local institutions have launched their communities on equitable growth paths, and are reducing poverty with little, or no outside assistance, despite severe resource constraints. Their impact could be enormous if external development resources augmented their potential. World Bank programs, and policy interventions could build on local strength, and make their activities more sustainable by mapping local institutions to guide new initiatives in pro-poor investment, and using that mapping to formalize, and increase internal local participation - expanding nationwide by using a network of local institutions. SAMs, and other local institutions, could be the vehicle for ensuring transparency, and accountability. Working with the results of local activities, national policies could favor the development of indigenously based, but externally oriented local economies. 2014-08-21T15:28:29Z 2014-08-21T15:28:29Z 2001-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/09/1614753/can-local-institutions-reduce-poverty-rural-decentralization-burkina-faso http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19551 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2677 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Burkina Faso |