Is Increasing Community Participation Always a Good Thing?
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This paper considers the impact of community participation on outcomes of development projects. It rst offers a theoretical framework for participation by using the property rights literature to model how participation in an activity, in addition to involving information exchange, also results in greater in uence in the activity. The model predicts that community participationmay not always be desirable. The paper then uses primary data on development projects in Northern Pakistan to provide empirical support for this prediction. It shows that while community participationimproves project outcomes in nontechnicaldecisions, increasing community participation in technical decisions actually leads to worse project outcomes. (JEL: D23, D78, H40, O12, O20)
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