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Doing Governance

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After 2015: International Development Policy at a Crossroads

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Abstract

Governance has become a central issue in international development. Access to governance structures and ‘voice’ of citizens in policy processes has both intrinsic and instrumental value to citizens and to the poor in particular. In fact when one takes the governance and poverty literatures, several areas are common to both such as participation and voice, rights and freedoms and access to/delivery of quality public services for example.

Without progress in governance, all other reforms will have limited impact (Commission for Africa, 2005:133).

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  1. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    Andy Sumner (Research Fellow)

  2. University of East London, UK

    Meera Tiwari (Head of International Development Studies)

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Sumner, A., Tiwari, M. (2009). Doing Governance. In: After 2015: International Development Policy at a Crossroads. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234680_5

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