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Promoting empowerment? The World Bank's Village Investment Project in Kyrgyzstan

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This article examines the extent to which the World Bank's community-driven Village Investment Project empowered people to influence the choice of local investments (micro-projects) and to exact accountability from their leaders. It is based on qualitative interviews and group discussions in 16 rural communities. The research demonstrates that the project provided an effective mechanism for responsive infrastructure delivery to address local priority needs. However, it did not improve accountability either within or outside the micro-project boundaries. The project's bottom-up development model was not by itself sufficient to enable people to exercise power over local government officials and informal leaders in the absence of effective horizontal accountability institutions within the state.

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  • Babken Babajanian, 2015. "Promoting empowerment? The World Bank's Village Investment Project in Kyrgyzstan," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(4), pages 499-515, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:34:y:2015:i:4:p:499-515
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2015.1095967
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