Local Governance and Poverty in Developing Nations

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Local Governance and Poverty in Developing Nations is written by Nicky Pouw and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 113648082X (ISBN 10) and 9781136480829 (ISBN 13).

This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies. It brings together a rich variety of in-depth country and international studies, based on a combination of original data-collection and extensive research experience in developing countries. Taking a bottom-up and multi-dimensional perspective of poverty and well-being as the starting point, the authors develop a convincing set of arguments for putting the priorities of poor people first on any development agenda, thus carving out an undisputable role for local governance in interplay with higher-up governance actors and institutions.