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| | Rural Development, Agriculture, and Food Security - Finance & Development - December 1996 |
 | | Experience shows that development projects are much more likely to reflect the affected community's priorities, reach their goals, and be sustainable when they are designed and executed with a high degree of influence by local stakeholders. |
 | | The Bank is assisting communities and local governments to find ways to finance infrastructure and services using their own revenues and fiscal-transfer mechanisms, develop their legal authority, strengthen their administrative and technical competence, and develop participatory mechanisms for assessing projects. |
 | | The appendices include three model survey forms, a glossary of security terms, a listing of the major security databases that may be useful to balance of payments compilers, and a method for reconciling data for security positions and transactions. |
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