Worthy of Continued Support? The Paradox of Community-Driven Development at the World Bank
Emmanuelle Poncin
Abstract:The World Bank’s community-driven development (CDD) interventions have outwardly been presented as powerful instruments of good governance, social cohesion, and empowerment. However, their far-reaching expansion has taken place in the absence of conclusive empirical evidence on their operations and effects. To make sense of this paradox at the core of CDD, this paper situates these programs in the Bank’s institutional context. It proposes that CDD operations have effectively served the Bank’s imperative to len… Show more
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