Date: Tuesday 19 March 2013
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Ghazala Mansuri, Vijayendra Rao
Discussant: David Mosse
Chair: Jean-Paul Faguet

Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?, a new Policy Research Report analyzing participatory development efforts, shows that such projects often fail to be sensitive to complex contexts - including social, political, historical and geographical realities - and fall short in terms of monitoring and evaluation systems, which hampers learning. Citing numerous examples, the authors demonstrate that participatory projects are not a substitute for weak states, but instead require strong central support to be effective.

Ghazala Mansuri is lead economist in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Equity Group.

Vijayendra Rao is lead economist in the World Bank's Development Research Group.

David Mosse is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Jean-Paul Faguet is a Reader in the Political Economy at the LSE and the current Chair of the Decentralization Task Force, part of Joseph Stiglitz's Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University.

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