TY - BOOK ID - 77878840 TI - Pro-poor growth and governance in South Asia : decentralization and participatory development AU - Wignaraja, Ponna. AU - Sirivardana, Susil. PY - 2004 SN - 1282425307 9786612425301 8132103882 9788132103882 0761997989 9780761997986 0761997997 9780761997993 8178292750 9788178292755 8178292769 9788178292762 9352800915 PB - New Delhi : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, DB - UniCat KW - Social planning KW - Poor KW - Poverty KW - Community development KW - Regional development KW - Economic assistance, Domestic KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Social development planning KW - Planning KW - Citizen participation KW - Government policy KW - Economic conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878840 AB - This important volume advocates a pro-poor growth strategy where the poor also participate directly as subjects in development. The contributors maintain that a critical element in this process is social mobilization where organizations of the poor work in partnership with a restructured state and a socially responsible private sector. They see a new political space for this in the current attempts at decentralization which are also aimed at developing power to the people. To illustrate these possibilities, the volume presents six case studies from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Banglad ER -