The process of economic reforms in the 1990s has resulted in a paradigm shift in the health sector in India. This paper is a modest attempt to address these concerns by focussing on aspects of health equity interplay between private and public sector service providers, and determinants of...

The study finds that clientelism may lead to under-provision of services which are deemed to be suitable for decentralisation. Water distribution and drainage services, managed from lower level of municipality, are likely to be affected by clientelism and consequent under-provision. Water...