Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize and …

an under-explored dimension; the allocation of public sector teachers in India. Using a register database for 2006-12, we …

, and/or the bureaucratic necessity of laying claim to having the bigger impact. The idea here is that good governance … argument for establishing good governance criteria is as much to put constraints on donor behavior as on the necessity of …

female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female …

to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …

focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …

Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …

labour market. A unique, rich and representative data survey for all Indian states and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998-1999) allows … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … India, we compare this effect with that one of Governmental Policies (GP) supporting household income and promoting …