Cooperatives and Decentralization: Lessons Learned and Implications
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- Government,
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- Management,
- Massachusetts Institute Of Technology,
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- Strategy
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Overview: Cooperatives and other forms of associations have been encouraged by governments, NGOs, and international agencies in many countries for undertaking income generating activities with the hope that they would lead to higher incomes for the members and generate significant public goods. However, in many cases, they have failed to meet these objectives. In this paper, one discusses how to avoid the mistakes of the past in dealing with cooperatives and what the donors should do while supporting them. Another issue that has received considerable attention from academics and development practitioners is that of decentralization. In this paper, one examines the issue of decentralization vs. centralization with particular attention to the issues of complementarity and varying circumstances related to them.
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Format: PDF | Size: 109KB | Date: Feb 2004 | Pages: 6
