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• Steering Committee Meeting
  Venue: KITLV, 10 am

• Tracking Development seminar on Cambodia and Uganda
  Venue: KITLV, Room 138, 15.30 – 17.00 pm
  Kheang Un: Rural bias: rhetoric or reality? Rural infrastructure development in Uganda and Cambodia
  One recurrent contrast between successful developing countries in Southeast Asia and persistently poor countries in Africa is that the governments of the former place more emphasis on rural development than do those of the latter. In the cases of Cambodia and Uganda this contrast is less marked than elsewhere in the two regions, with neither country committing a major proportion of its formal development budget to the agricultural sector. In Cambodia, nevertheless, a degree of rural bias can be identified in the form of unofficial, off-budget expenditure on rural infrastructure development. This relates to premier Hun Sen's strategy of using patronage-based practices to mobilize resources from bureaucrats and businessmen, and to an increasing awareness on the part of the Cambodian People's Party of the need to gain popular legitimacy by winning votes in the countryside. Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement, by comparison, derives its legitimacy mainly from its ability to maintain peace and stability, and from ethnic and regional patronage networks rather than from development performance. In the final analysis, Cambodia is becoming a patrimonial developmental state and may emerge as an 'Asian tiger', while the chance of Uganda becoming an 'African lion' remains limited.

• Steering Committee Meeting
  Venue: ASC, 10 am

• Steering Committee Meeting
  Venue: KITLV, 10 am

• Steering Committee Meeting
  Venue: ASC, 10 am

• Steering Committee Meeting
  Venue: KITLV, 10 am

• Steering Committee Meeting
  Venue, ASC, 10 am