RURAL POVERTY, DECENTRALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT
KIRUBI MAINA
Business school
NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY
CONTENTS Introduction Poverty and Rural Areas---------------------------------------------------------------------------2 Urban Bias polices ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 Fiscal impact on rural areas-----------------------------------------------------------------------5 Inadequate Resource Mobilization--------------------------------------------------------------6 Rural Politics -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 Pro-poor Rural Development strategies Rural Development strategies--------------------------------------------------------------------9 Failure Rural Development polices-------------------------------------------------------------10 Way forward for Rural Development-----------------------------------------------------------11 Decentralization Defining Decentralization-------------------------------------------------------------------------13 Political Decentralization--------------------------------------------------------------------------17 Fiscal Decentralization----------------------------------------------------------------------------18 Institution decentralisation------------------------------------------------------------------------21 Economic and market decentralisation-------------------------------------------------------24 Case studies UGANDA---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------25 SOUTH AFRICA-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------28 Conclusions---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------30 References------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------31
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INTRODUCTION Poverty continues to permeate rural areas in many developing...