Research Catalog

Title

Unpacking policy : knowledge, actors, and spaces in poverty reduction in Uganda and Nigeria / editors, Karen Brock, Rosemary McGee [and] John Gaventa.

Publication

Kampala : Fountain Publishers, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Brock, Karen.
• McGee, Rosemary.
• Gaventa, John, 1949-
• Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England)

Description

xv, 338 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

• Knowledge, actors, and spaces in poverty reduction in Uganda and Nigeria
• Poverty reduction in Uganda and Nigeria

Subject

• Poverty > Government policy > Uganda
• Poverty > Government policy > Nigeria
• Policy sciences
• Uganda > Economic policy
• Nigeria > Economic policy

Note

• "Published by Fountain Publishers Ltd for the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-323) and index.

Contents

Unpacking policy / Rosemary McGee -- Contextualising poverty reduction policy / Karen Brock -- The state, civil society, and development policy in Uganda / John De Coninck -- The corporatist state, the parallel state, and prospects for representative and accountable policy / Richard Ssewakiryanga -- Ugandan civil society in the policy process / Karen Brock -- Poverty knowledge in central-level policy processes in Uganda / Rosemary McGee -- Context, rules, participation, and exclusion : spatial dynamics at the district level and below / Karen Brock -- At the confluence of two streams : poverty reduction policy at the federal level in Nigeria / Karen Brock and John Gaventa -- Civil society engagement in the federal poverty reduction process / Karen Brock, John Gaventa, and Olusade Taiwo -- Contesting control of resource allocation : power relations, actors, and the policy process in Bayelsa State, Nigeria / Peter Ozo-Eson with O. Owei and U. Ukiwo -- Different narratives, different policy models : whose knowledge counts in the policy process in Ekiti? / Olusade Taiwo and F.O.N. Roberts -- Constructing spaces for poverty reduction : politics, religion, and poverty reduction policies in Jigawa State / Yahaya Hashim and Judith-Ann Walker -- Local perceptions of poverty and governance in Benue and Kaduna States / Oga Steve Abah and Jenkeri Z. Okwori -- From policy to power / John Gaventa.

Call Number

Sc D 05-1462

ISBN

9970024280

LCCN

2004410944

OCLC

59003179

Title

Unpacking policy : knowledge, actors, and spaces in poverty reduction in Uganda and Nigeria / editors, Karen Brock, Rosemary McGee [and] John Gaventa.

Imprint

Kampala : Fountain Publishers, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-323) and index.

Added Author

Brock, Karen.

McGee, Rosemary.

Gaventa, John, 1949-

Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England)

Research Call Number

Sc D 05-1462