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Peer reviewedAryeetey, Ellen Bortei-Doku – Community Development Journal, 1998
Despite the newly decentralized local government system in Ghana, communities have been slow to develop broad-based participatory consultative processes for community development. Inflexible bureaucracy also hinders involvement of stakeholders. (SK)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Community Development, Consultants, Decentralization
Khan, Akhter Hameed – 1978
One hundred years of rural development in India is surveyed, tracing the impact of colonial administration up to and including the decades of independence--an administration built on elitism, centralism, and paternalism. Four major rural problems of famine, abuses of land tenure, peasant indebtedness, and rural disaffection and how political…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agriculture, Change Agents, Change Strategies
