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 …

, 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 …

scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …

of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …-risk populations in developing countries like India …

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