Author: Jonathan FoxPublisher: University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Decentralization and Rural Development in Mexico
Author: Jonathan FoxPublisher: University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Local Governments and Rural Development
Author: Krister AnderssonPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816527014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades. Experts blame excessively centralized public administrations for the lackluster performance of public policy initiatives. In response, decentralization reformshave become a common government strategy for improving public sector performance in rural areas. The effect of these reforms is a topic of considerable debate among government officials, policy scholars, and citizensÕ groups. This book offers a systematic analysis of how local governments and farmer groups in Latin America are actually faring today. Based on interviews with more than 1,200 mayors, local officials, and farmers in 390 municipal territories in four Latin American nations, the authors analyze the ways in which different forms of decentralization affect the governance arrangements for rural development Òon the ground.Ó Their comparative analysis suggests that rural development outcomes are systemically linked to locally negotiated institutional arrangementsÑformal and informalÑbetween government officials, NGOs, and farmer groups that operate in the local sphere. They find that local-government actors contribute to public services that better assist the rural poor when local actors cooperate to develop their own institutional arrangements for participatory planning, horizontal learning, and the joint production of services. This study brings substantive data and empirical analysis to a discussion that has, until now, more often depended on qualitative research in isolated cases. With more than 60 percent of Latin AmericaÕs rural population living in poverty, the results are both timely and crucial.
Rural Development and Urban-Bound Migration in Mexico
Author: Arthur SilversPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131727069X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Rapid growth of urban populations is a major characteristic of economic development and demographic change in developing countries leading to industrialisation and modernisation of major cities. Originally published in 1980, this study focusses on these issues using Mexico as a case study as well as analysing the risk of over-urbanisation and what the effects will be on cities such as Mexico City. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental studies and Economics.
Decentralization In Mexico
Author: Victoria RodriguezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429980736
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This book assesses the impact of decentralization on Mexico’s intergovernmental relations and examines the constraints upon the devolution of political power from the center to the lower levels of government. It also discusses the distribution of power and authority to governments of opposition parties within the context of a more open political space. Victoria Rodríguez uncovers a new paradox in the Mexican political system: retaining power by giving it away. She argues that since the de la Madrid presidency (1982–1988), the Mexican government has embarked upon a major effort of political and administrative decentralization as a means to increase its hold on power. That effort continued under Salinas, but paradoxically led to further centralization. However, since Zedillo assumed the presidency, it has become increasingly clear that the survival of the ruling party and, indeed, the viability of his own government require a genuine, de facto reduction of centralism.
Mexican Perceptions on Rural Development and Migration of Workers to the United States and Actions Taken, 1970-1988
Author: Jesús TamayoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Decentralized Rural Development and Poverty Reduction in Mexico
Author: Jeremy HealdPublisher:
ISBN: 9786077778141
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico
Author: Merilee S. GrindlePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520032385
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Mexico
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Rural Development
Author: A Comparison of Top-down and Bottom-up Community Development Interventions in Rural Mexico
Author: Christopher R. LarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In this brief (80 pages of text) presentation of his dissertation research, Larrison (social work, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) describes findings linked to his field research in villages in Veracruz, Mexico. The theory, method, and effectiveness of top-down versus bottom-up development are described at length. The approaches of several organizations involved in rural development in Mexico are then described more briefly. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR