Open defecation is a traditional behavior in rural India. Conventional rural sanitation programs have been based on the … Government of India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in 1999, with the goal of achieving universal rural sanitation …

. In this paper, building on work in social theory, the author argues that common property can also be social … understanding collective action. He illustrates the point by contrasting how conceptions of nationalism in Indonesia and India …-help) that was both internalized and coercively enforced. India emphasized democratic decentralization through the panchayat …

? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …

This paper has been prepared in accordance with the terms of reference for a study on power system planning in India … as in India and compares the figures available. It also comments on the validity of the external cost estimates available … and the use made of them in power system planning and regulation both outside and inside India. The structure is as …

This report is based on a study of the costs of retail payments in Kosovo, using a methodology (A Practical Guide for … Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment System Development Group (PSDG), part of the Finance … Post Office on the supply side. The study aims to establish a sound economic baseline for the national retail payments …