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State-Led or Market-Led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengalâ€™s Farm Productivity Growth

Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip; Kumar, Neha - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local government programs (land reforms …

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Maharashtra Budget Speech 2012-13: Part I

Government, Maharashtra - eSocialSciences - 2012

Budget for the year 2012-13. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_I.pdf].

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Policy Brief: OECD: Decentralisation in Asian Health Sectors: Friend or Foe?

Uchimura, Hiroko; Jütting, Johannes - eSocialSciences - 2006

, decentralisation in Indonesia and the Philippines produced better health outcomes because they reformed healthcare funding. This is key … to successful pro-poor decentralisation.{OECD Development Centre Policy Insights No 18, May 2006] …

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Women in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation: A Study in the Context of the Debate on the Women's Reservation Bill

Lema-Rewal, Stephanie Tawa - eSocialSciences - 2008

This article presents the findings of a survey conducted in 2000 in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC), where quotas â€“ 33 per cent of seats - for women have been implemented since 1995. [CSH Occassional Paper No. 2]

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The Impact of Education Policy Reforms on the School System:A Field Study of EGS and Other Primary Schools in Madhya Pradesh

Leclercq, Francois - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper presents the results of fieldwork on rural primary schools of two districts of Madhya Pradesh, India, conducted from December 2001 to March 2002. Since the mid-1990â€™s, the government of this state has initiated reforms in the public primary school sector, by decentralising its...

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Decentralisation on Fallow and Fertile Ground: Preparing the Population for Democratic Self-Governance

Krishna, Anirudh - eSocialSciences - 2006

Decentralizing authority to democratically elected local government is advised for reasons of efficiency and good governance, but equity may suffer if elites capture decision making at the local level. What safeguards can help promote equitable and participatory decentralization? This question...

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Realising The Potential Of Panchayati Raj In India

Saxena, Naresh C. - eSocialSciences - 2005

Rural decentralisation and panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) are a profound change in the Indian rural institutional …, decentralisation can increase the fiscal burden on the states and lead to a breakdown in service delivery1, in particular to the poor … the reforms that are specific to panchayats and decentralisation. …

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Institutionalising Citizen Participaion in Urban Governance

Ramanathan, Ramesh - eSocialSciences - 2006

The twin concepts of a federal arrangement â€“ a structure for a multi-tiered form of government with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, as well as active citizenship are like the two strands of the DNA of good public governance. And we are in the early evolutionary stages of both...

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Decentralisation as a Policy Process in India

Kumar, V. Anil - eSocialSciences - 2007

This article argues that decentralisation in India should be seen as a policy process. It is a policy process in the … sense that multiple actors, and agencies influence the decentralisation process at all levels of the polity. While this may … appear obvious, regarding decentralisation as a policy process requires: a) analysis of this process not at one level or as …

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The Right to Education Bill, 2005

eSocialSciences; Department of Education DoE - 2006

It is also imperative to improve the present delivery system of elementary education by, inter alia, greater decentralization of its management, and making it sensitive to the needs of children, especially of those belonging to disadvantaged groups.

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