Decentralisation, Accountability and the 2007 MP Elections in Kenya.
To alleviate poverty at the grass-roots level the Kenyan government has devised the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) which allocates resources to constituencies for MPs and residents to decide how to spend. This article assesses how the CDF has been spent since its implementation in 2003 and whet...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 72 - 95 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2013
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