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 …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … institutional development. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance …

female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female … political leadership may generate gains in governance but only after the initial, gendered disadvantages recede. Our findings …

government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between … expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first provide …

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U … in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm to one of constrained managerial discretion. In competitive and … evolving nonunion governance norms. …

can reflect the reduction in deprivation attributable to the improved affordability and expanded coverage of government …