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New Regional Development Paradigms Volume 3, Decentralization, Governance, and the New Planning for Local-Level Development
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Walter B. Stöhr, ed., Josefa S. Edralin, ed., Devyani Mani
ISBN: 0-313-31767-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31767-5
288 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2001
List Price: $87.95 (UK Sterling Price: £60.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Looking at the world today, one sees a breath-taking globalization of prosperity side-by-side with a depressing globalization of poverty. While bringing remarkable economic, technological, and democratic advances, globalization has increased poverty, hunger, health hazards, exclusion from technology, and disparities in human welfare. Developmental efforts need to be directed at those who have been left behind, reaching them at the local level. This volume considers three avenues for meeting this challenge--decentralization of government, renewed cooperation between the public and private sectors, and local level development. In specific case studies, the book looks at experiences with these avenues in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Taken together, the chapters in this volume present a wealth of novel concepts and practical experiences. The book should inspire new ideas and improvements in the practice of local and regional development planning and policy worldwide.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Walter B. Stöhr
    Decentralization, Governance, and Sustainable Regional Development by Robertson Work
    Subsidiarity: A Key Concept for Regional Development Policy by Walter B. Stöhr
    From Sophisticated Plans to Daily Business in Regional Development Planning: Experiences of GTZ by Petra Stremplat-Platte
    Governance and Sustainable Regional Development: The CIDA-IOG Canada-ASEAN Governance Innovations Network by Kathleen Lauder and Joaquin L. Gonzalez III
    Regional Development through Rural-Urban Linkages: The PARUL Programme in Indonesia by Hugh Emrys Evans
    Decentralization in Africa: Trends and Prospects for the Twenty-First Century by Walter O. Oyugi
    Decentralization and Local Autonomy: Regional Planning in Ethiopia by Getachew Mequanent and D.R. Fraser Taylor
    Regional Development under Participation: Some Experiences from the Philippines by Michael von Boguslawski
    Rhetoric and Reality: Decentralization, Planning, and Development in the Southern Mindanao Region, Philippines by Sophremiano B. Antipolo
    Development of Grass-Roots Institutions: Experience of Life in Pakistan (1993-1998) by Fayyaz Baqir
    Comparing Parastatal and Local Government Service Delivery in Emerging Indian Metropolises by Devyani Mani
    Public-Private Partnership for the Renewal of Santiago City Centre by Francisco Sabatini, Jaime Valenzuela, and Marcelo Reyes
    Bibliography
    List of Contributors
    Index
About the Author: WALTER B. STÖHR is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria.

JOSEFA S. EDRALIN is Coordinator of the Human Security and Regional Development Project at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development in Nagoya, Japan.

DEVYANI MANI is Senior Researcher at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development in Nagoya, Japan.
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