The role of local elites in development projects: an experience from Sudan

Dipankar Datta reflects on important lessons learnt, when observers argued that a project designed to reach the extreme poor in Northern Sudan had been ‘hijacked’ by the local elite.

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Article in: PLA 54. Guest-edited by: Giacomo Rambaldi, Jon Corbett, Michael K. McCall, Rachel Olson, Julius Muchemi, Peter A. Kwaku Kyem, Daniel Wiener, Robert Chambers

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