Wilson Center Experts
Richard E. Stren
Fellowship
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Wilson Center Project(s):
New Local Governance of Development: An Urban Perspective
Project Summary
Discussing the role of cities in the international economy, and relates this role to the place in the discussion of development policy. Looks at the widespread decentralization and enhanced role for local governance in many southern countries. Engages with the development assistance community in a discussion of the implications of new realities.
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Governance on the Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in the Developing World
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Why is Urban Assistance Important? Inserting Urban Issues Into the Development Agenda
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Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor: The Orangi Pilot Project in Karachi, Pakistan and Density & Urban Form in Dakar, Senegal
September 07, 2007 // 9:00am — 11:30am
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Jul 07, 2011Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment. This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientistsMore about this title can be found on the Wilson Center Press website.