Community-based and -driven development: A critical review

World Bank Research Observer

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-39

  Mansuri, Ghazala ^a   Rao, Vijayendra ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; WORLD BANK;

EID: 3042701570     PISSN: 02573032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wbro/lkh012     Document Type: Review

References (131)

1. Abraham, Anita, and Jean-Phillippe Platteau. 2004. "Participatory Development: When Culture Creeps." In V. Rao and M. Walton, eds., Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
2. Agarwal, A., and C. Gibson. 1999. "Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation." World Development 27(4):629-50.
3. Agarwal, Bina. 2001. "Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender: An Analysis for South Asia and a Conceptual Framework." World Development 29(10):1623-48.
4. Alderman, Harold. 2002. "Do Local Officials Know Something We Don't? Decentralization of Targeted Transfers in Albania." Journal of Public Economics 83(3):375-404.
5. Alesina, Alberto, and Eliana La Ferrara. 2000. "Participation in Heterogeneous Communities." Quarterly Journal of Economics 115(3):847-904.
6. Appadurai, Arjun. 2004. "The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition." In V. Rao and M. Walton, eds., Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
7. Baland, Jean Marie, and Jean-Philippe Platteau. 1998. "Wealth Inequality and Effeciency in the Commons, Part II: The Regulated Case." Oxford Economic Papers 50(1):1-22.
8. Baland, Jean Marie, and Jean-Philippe Platteau. 1999. "The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management." World Development 27(5):773-88.
9. Baland, Jean Marie, and Jean-Philippe Platteau. 2003. "Institutions and the Efficient Management of Environmental Resources." In K.-G. Mähler and J. R. Vincent, eds., Handbook of Environmental Economics. Vol. 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland.
10. Baland, Jean Marie, and Jean-Philippe Platteau. Forthcoming. "Collective Action and the Commons: The Role of Inequality." In J. M. Baland, P. Bardhan, and S. Bowles, eds., Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
11. Bardhan, Pranab. 2000. "Irrigation and Cooperation: An Empirical Analysis of 48 Irrigation Communities in South India." Economic Development and Cultural Change 48(4):847-65.
12. Bardhan, Pranab, and Jeff Dayton-Johnson. 2001. "Unequal Irrigators: Heterogeneity and Commons Management in Large-Scale Multivariate Research." Working paper, University of California, Berkeley.
13. Bardhan, Pranab, and Dilip Mookherjee. 2000. "Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels." American Economic Review 90(2):135-39.
14. Bebbington, Anthony, Scott Guggenheim, Elizabeth Olson, and Michael Woolcock. Forthcoming. "Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank." Journal of Development Studies.
15. Bergstrom, T. C., L. Blume, and H. Varian. 1986. "On the Private Provision of Public Goods." Journal of Public Economics 29(1):25-49.
16. Binswanger, Hans, and Swaminathan Aiyer. 2003. "Scaling Up Community Driven Development: Theoretical Underpinnings and Program Design Implications." World Bank, Washington, D.C.
17. Blomquist, W., and E. Ostrom. 1985. "Institutional Capacity and the Resolution of a Commons Dilemma." Policy Studies Review 5(2):383-93.
18. Botchway, Karl. 2001. "Paradox of Empowerment: Reflections on a Case Study from Northern Ghana." World Development 29(1):135-53.
19. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
20. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990. The Logic of Practice. Trans. Richard Nice. Palo Alto, Calif: Stanford University Press.
21. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1998. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Trans. Randal Johnson. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
22. Bowen, John R. 1986. "On the Political Construction of Tradition: Gotong Royong in Indonesia." Journal of Asian Studies 45(3):545-61.
23. Cernea, Michael, ed. 1985. Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development. New York: Oxford University Press and World Bank.
24. Chambers, Robert. 1983. Rural Development: Putting the First Last. London: Longman.
25. Chase, Robert S. 2002. "Supporting Communities in Transition: The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund." World Bank Economic Review 16(2):219-40.
26. Chase, Robert S., and Lynn Sherburne Benz. 2001. "Household Effects of Community Education and Health Initiatives: Evaluating the Impact of the Zambia Social Fund." World Bank, Washington, D.C.
27. Chwe, Michael Suk-Young. 1999. "Structure and Strategy in Collective Action." American Journal of Sociology 105(1):128-56.
28. Chwe, Michael Suk-Young. 2001. Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination and Common Knowledge. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
29. Cleaver, Frances. 1999. "Paradoxes of Participation: Questioning Participatory Approaches to Development." Journal of International Development 11(4):597-612.
30. Coady, David. 2001. "An Evaluation of the Distributional Power of PROGRESA'S Cash Transfers in Mexico." FCND Discussion Paper 117. International Food Policy Research Institute, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, Washington, D.C.
31. Conning, Jonathan, and Michael Kevane. 2002. "Community Based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets: A Critical Review." World Development 30(3):375-94
32. Cooke, Bill, and Uma Kothari. 2001. Participation: The New Tyranny? London: Zed Books.
33. Das Gupta, Monica, Helene Grandvoinnet, and Mattia Romani. 2000. "State-Community Synergies in Development: Laying the Basis for Collective Action." Policy Research Working Paper 2439. World Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, D.C.
34. Dayton-Johnson, Jeff. 2000. "Determinants of Collective Action on the Local Commons: A Model with Evidence from Mexico." Journal of Development Economics 62(1):181-208.
35. Dayton-Johnson, Jeff, and Pranab Bardhan. 2002. "Inequality and Conservation on the Local Commons: A Theoretical Exercise." Economic Journal 112(481):577-602.
36. Demsetz, Harold. 1970. "The Private Production of Public Goods." Journal of Law and Economics 13(2):293-306.
37. Dongier, Philip, Julie Van Domelen, Elinor Ostrom, Andrea Ryan, Wendy Wakeman, Anthony Bebbington, Sabina Alkire, Talib Esmail, and Margatet Polski. 2001. "Community Driven Development." In World Bank, Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Sourcebook. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.
38. Durlauf, Steven N. 2001. "On the Empirics of Social Capital." Working paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Economics.
39. Escobar, Arturo. 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
40. Fine, Ben. 2001. Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium. London: Routledge.
41. Finsterbusch, Kurt, and Warren Van Wicklin III. 1989. "Beneficiary Participation in Development Projects: Empirical Tests of Popular Theories." Economic Development and Cultural Change 37(3):573-93.
42. Freire, Paulo. 1970. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Herder and Herder.
43. Galasso, Emanuela, and Martin Ravallion. Forthcoming. "Decentralized Targeting of an Anti-Poverty Program." Journal of Public Economics.
44. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. 1962. Village Swaraj. Ahmedabad, India: Navjivan Press.
45. Grootaert, Christiaan. 1998. "Social Capital: The Missing Link?" SCI Working Paper 3. World Bank, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network, Washington, D.C.
46. Gugerty, Mary Kay, and Michael Kremer. 2000. "Outside Funding of Community Organizations: Benefiting or Displacing the Poor?" NBER Working Paper 7896. National Bureau for Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass.
47. Gugerty, Mary Kay, and Edward Miguel. 2000. "Community Participation and Social Sanctions in Kenyan Schools." Harvard University, Program of Political Economy and Government, Cambridge, Mass.
48. Guijit, Irene, and Meera Kaul Shah. 1998. The Myth of Community: Gender Issues in Participatory Development. Colchester, U.K.: Intermediate Technology Development Group Publishing.
49. Gusfield, Joseph R. 1975. Community: A Critical Response. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
50. Hardin, Garrett. 1992. "Tragedy of the Commons." In Anil Markandya and Julie Richardson, eds., Environmental Economics: A Reader. New York: St. Martin's Press.
51. Hardin, Russell. 1982. Collective Action. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.
52. Harragin, Simon. 2004. "Relief and an Understanding of Local Knowledge: The Case of Southern Sudan." In V. Rao and M. Walton, eds., Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
53. Harriss, John. 2001. Depoliticizing Development: The World Bank and Social Capital. New Delhi: LeftWord Books.
54. Heckathorn, D. 1993. "Collective Action and Group Heterogeneity: Voluntary Provision versus Selective Incentives." American Sociological Review 58(3):329-50.
55. Hirschman, Albert O. 1970. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
56. Hirschman, Albert O. 1984. Getting Ahead Collectively: Grassroots Experiences in Latin America. New York: Pergamon Press.
57. Hoddinott, John, M. Adato, T. Besley, and L. Haddad. 2001. "Participation and Poverty Reduction: Issues, Theory, and New Evidence from South Africa." FCND Discussion Paper 98. International Food Policy Research Institute, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, Washington, D.C.
58. Isham, Jonathan, and Satu Kähkönen. 1999a. "Institutional Determinants of the Impact of Community-Based Water Services: Evidence from Sri-Lanka and India." Working Paper 236. University of Maryland, Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, College Park, Md.
59. Isham, Jonathan, and Satu Kḧakönen. 1999b. "What Determines the Effectiveness of Community-Based Water Projects? Evidence from Central Java, Indonesia, on Demand Responsiveness, Service Rules, and Social Capital." SCI Paper 14. World Bank, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network, Washington, D.C.
60. Itaya, J., D. de Meza, and G. D. Myles. 1997. "In Praise of Inequality: Public Good Provision and Income Distribution." Economic Letters 57(3):289-96.
61. Jackson, Cecile. 1997. "Sustainable Development at the Sharp End: Fieldworker Agency in a Participatory Project." Development in Practice 7(1):237-47.
62. Jalan, Jyotsna, and Martin Ravallion. 2003. "Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Anti-poverty Program by Propensity-Score Matching." Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 21(1):19-30.
63. Jimenez, Emmanuel, and Vicente Paqueo. 1996. "Do Local Contributions Affect the Efficiency of Public Primary Schools?" Economics of Education Review 15(4):377-86.
64. Jimenez, Emmanuel, and Yasuyuki Sawada. 1999. "Do Community-Managed Schools Work? An Evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO Program." World Bank Economic Review 13(3):415-41.
65. Katz, Travis, and Jennifer Sara. 1997. "Making Rural Water Supply Sustainable: Recommendations from a Global Study." Water and Sanitation Program, Washington, D.C.
66. Khwaja, Asim Ijaz. 2001. "Can Good Projects Succeed in Bad Communities? Collective Action in the Himalayas." Harvard University, Department of Economics, Cambridge, Mass.
67. King, Elizabeth, and Berk Özler. 2000. "What's Decentralization Got to Do with Learning? Endogenous School Quality and Student Performance in Nicaragua." World Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, D.C.
68. Kleemeier, Elizabeth. 2000. "The Impact of Participation on Sustainability: An Analysis of the Malawi Rural Piped Scheme Program." World Development 28(5):929-44.
69. Krishna, Anirudh. 2002. "Global Truths and Local Realities: Traditional Institutions in a Modern World." Duke University, Durham, N.C.
70. Krishna, Anirudh, Norman Uphoff, and Milton J. Esman, eds. 1997. Reasons for Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development. West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press.
71. Kurien, V. 1997, "The AMUL Dairy Cooperatives: Putting the Means of Development into the Hands of Small Producers in India." In Anirudh Krishna, Norman Uphoff, and Milton J. Esman, eds., Reasons for Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development. West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press.
72. La Ferrara, Eliana. 2002. "Inequality and Group Participation: Theory and Evidence from Rural Tanzania." Journal of Public Economics 85(2):235-73.
73. Matthew, George, and Nirmala Buch, eds. 2000. Status of Panchayati Raj in the States and Union Territories of India 2000. New Delhi: Concept Publishing.
74. Michener, Victoria. 1998. "The Participatory Approach: Contradiction and Co-option in Burkina Faso." World Development 26(12):2105-18.
75. Morris, S., J. Hoddinott, J. M. Medina, and G. Begeron. 1999. "Will Rural Development Enhance Food Security: A Case Study of Western Honduras." International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
76. Mosse, David. 1997a. "Colonial and Contemporary Ideologies of Community Management: The Case of Tank Irrigation Development in South India." Modern Asian Studies 33(2):303-38.
77. Mosse, David. 1997b. "The Symbolic Making of a Common Property Resource: History, Ecology, and Locality in a Tank-Irrigated Landscape in South India." Development and Change 28(3):467-504.
78. Mosse, David. 2001. "'People's Knowledge,' Participation and Patronage: Operations and Representations in Rural Development." In Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari, eds., Participation: The New Tyranny. London: Zed Books.
79. Narayan, Deepa. 1998. "Participatory Rural Development." In E. Lutz, H. Binswanger, P. Hazell, and A. McCalla, eds., Agriculture and the Environment. Washington D.C.: World Bank. .
80. Narayan, Deepa, ed. 2002. Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
81. Narayan, Deepa, and Katrinka Ebbe. 1997. "Design of Social Funds: Participation, Demand Orientation and Local Organizational Capacity." World Bank Discussion Paper 375. Washington, D.C.
82. Newman, John, Menno Pradhan, Laura Rawlings, Geert Ridder, Ramiro Coa, and Jose Luis Evia. 2002. "An Impact Evaluation of Education, Health and Water Supply Investments by the Bolivian Social Investment Fund." World Bank Economic Review 16(2):241-74.
83. North, Douglass. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
84. Oliver, P., G. Marwell, and R. Teixeira. 1985. "A Theory of the Critical Mass I. Interdependence, Group Heterogeneity, and the Production of Collective Action." American Journal of Sociology 91(3):522-56.
85. Olson, Mancur. 1973. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
86. Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press.
87. Ostrom, E., W. Lam, and M. Lee. 1994. "The Performance of Self-Governing Irrigation Systems in Nepal." Human Systems Management 13(3):197-207.
88. Paxson, Christina, and Norbert Schady. 2002. "The Allocation and Impact of Social Funds: Spending on School Infrastructure in Peru." World Bank Economic Review 16(2):29 7-319.
89. Phillips, Sue, and Richard Edwards. 2000. "Development, Impact Assessment and the Praise Culture." Critique of Anthropology 20(1):47-66
90. Portes, Alejandro. 1978. "Social Capital: Its Origins, and Applications in Modern Society." Annual Review of Sociology 98 (6 ):1320-50.
91. Pradhan, Menno, and Laura B. Rawlings. 2002. "The Impact and Targeting of Social Infrastructure Investments: Lessons from the Nicaraguan Social Fund." World Bank Economic Review 16(2): 275-95.
92. Pritchett, Lant. 2002. "It Pays to Be Ignorant: A Simple Political Economy Model of Rigorous Program Evaluation." Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Mass.
93. Pritchett, Lant, and Michael Woolcock. 2002. "Solutions When the Solution Is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development." Working Paper 10. Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C.
94. Putnam, Robert D., with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
95. Rao, Vijayendra. 2001. "Celebrations as Social Investments: Festival Expenditures, Unit Price Variation and Social Status." Journal of Development Studies 38(1):71-97.
96. Rao, Vijayendra. 2003. "Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Community Based Development in Indonesia and India." World Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, D.C.
97. Rao, Vijayendra, and Ana Maria Ibanez. 2003. "The Social Impact of Social Funds in Jamaica: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Participation, Targeting and Collective Action in Community Driven Development." Policy Research Working Paper 2970. World Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, D.C.
98. Rao, Vijayendra, and Michael Walton. 2004. "Culture and Public Action: An Introduction." In V. Rao and M. Walton, eds., Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
99. Rao, Vijayendra, and Michael Woolcock. 2003. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Program Evaluation." In Francois Bourguignon and Luiz Pereira Da Silva, eds., Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic, Policies: A General Introduction. Washington, D.C.: World Bank and Oxford University Press.
100. Ravallion, Martin. 2000. "Monitoring Targeting Performance When Decentralized Allocations to the Poor Are Unobserved." World Bank Economic Review 14(2):331-45.
101. Ravallion, M., and O. Wodon. 1999. "Poor Areas or Only Poor People." Journal of Regional Science 39(4):689-711.
102. Ribot, Jesse C. 1995. "From Exclusion to Participation: Turning Senegal's Forestry Policy Around" World Development 23(9):1587-99.
103. Ribot, Jesse C. 1999. Decentralization, Participation and Accountability in Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Political-Adminisitrative Control." Africa 69(1):23-65.
104. Rose, Kalima. 1993. Where Women Are Leaders: The SEWA Movement in India. London: Zed Books.
105. Schady, Norbert R. 2000. "Political Economy of Expenditures by the Peruvian Social Fund." American Political Science Review 94(2 ):289-304
106. Scott, James. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
107. Seabright, Paul. 1996. "Accountability and Decentralization in Government: An Incomplete Contracts Model." European Economic Review 40(l):61-89.
108. Sen, Amartya K. 1985. Commodities and Capabilities. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
109. Sen, Amartya K. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Knopf.
110. Serrano-Berthet, Rodrigo. 1996. "Who Knows What's Best for the Poor: Demand-Driven Policies and Rural Poverty in Northeast Brazil-MIT/State of Ceará Project II" Master's thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Cambridge, Mass.
111. Somanathan, E., R. Prabhakar, and Bhupendra Singh Mehta. 2002. "Collective Action for Forest Conservation: Does Heterogeneity Matter?" Discussion Paper in Economics 02-01. Indian Statistical Institute, Planning Unit, New Delhi.
112. Sullivan, John. 1992. Local Government and Community in Java: An Urban Case-Study, Singapore: Oxford University Press.
113. Summers, Lawrence. 2001. Speech at World Bank Country Director's Retreat. Washington D.C.
114. Tendler, Judith. 2000. "Why Are Social Funds So Popular?" In Shahid Yusuf, Weiping Wu, and Simon Evenett, eds., Local Dynamics in an Era of Globalization: 21st Century Catalysts for Development. New York: Oxford University Press.
115. Tendler, Judith, and Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet. 1999. "The Rise of Social Funds: What Are They a Model Of?" Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Cambridge, Mass.
116. Thomass-Slayter, Barbara P. 1994. "Structural Change, Power Politics, and Community Organizations in Africa-Challenging the Patterns, Puzzles, and Paradoxes." World Development 22(10):1479-90.
117. Trawick, Paul. 2001. "Successfully Governing the Commons: Principles of Social Organization in an Andean Irrigation System." Human Ecology 29(1):1-25.
118. Uphoff, Norman. 1986. Improving International Irrigation Management with Farmer Participation: Getting the Process Right. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
119. Uphoff, Norman, and C. M. Wijayratna. 2000. "Demonstrated Benefits from Social Capital: The Productivity of Farmer Based Organizations in Gal Oya, Sri Lanka." World Development 28(11): 1875-90.
120. Uphoff, Norman, Milton J. Esman, and Anirudh Krishna. 1998. Reasons for Success: Learning from Instructive Experiences in Rural Development. West Harford, Conn.: Kumarian Press.
121. Vasan, Sudha. 2002. "Ethnography of the Forest Guard: Contrasting Discourses, Conflicting Roles and Policy Implementation." Economic and Political Weekly 5 October. Available online at www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=10&filenarne=5016 &filetype=html.
122. Vedeld, Trond. 2000. "Village Politics: Heterogeneity, Leadership and Collective Action." Journal of Development Studies 36(5):105-34.
123. Wade, R. 1987. "The Management of Common Property Resources: Finding a Cooperative Solution." World Bank Research Observer 2(3):219-34.
124. White, Howard. 1999. "Politicising Development? The Role of Participation in the Activities of Aid Agencies." In Ken Gupta, ed., Foreign Aid: New Perspectives. Boston: Kluwer Academic Press.
125. White, Sarah. 1996. "Depoliticizing Development: The Uses and Abuses of Participation." Development in Practice 6(1):6-15.
126. Woolcock, Michael. 1998. "Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and Policy Framework." Theory and Society 27(2):151-208.
127. World Bank. 2000. "New Paths to Social Development: Community and Global Networks in Action." Social Development Department, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network, Washington, D.C.
128. World Bank. 2001. World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.
129. World Bank. 2002. Social Funds: Assessing Effectiveness. Operations Evaluations Department. Washington, D.C.
130. World Bank. 2003. World Development Report 2004 Making Services Work for the Poor. Washington D.C.: World Bank and Oxford University Press,
131. Zyl, Johan Van, Loretta Sonn, and Alberto Costa. 2000. "Decentralized Rural Development, Enhanced Community Participation, and Local Government Performance: Evidence from North-East Brazil."