Pro-poor Growth and Governance in South Asia

Decentralization and Participatory Development

• Author(s): Ponna Wignaraja, Susil Sirivardana,
• Publisher: SAGE
• Pages: 459
• ISBN_10: 0761997997
  ISBN_13: 9780761997993
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / General , Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Business & Economics / Development / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Regional Planning , POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy , Social Science / General , Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness ,

Description:... A study of issues in good governance in South Asia, in the countries of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. It focuses on the interconnections between governance, decentralization and poverty eradication. It evaluates conventional developmental thinking and suggests the outline of an alternative pro-poor developmental strategy.