of a two-thirds reduction by 2015. Yet, some countries and regions have achieved impressive reductions, Kerala in India …. We conclude that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting …

The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of the decentralization of the public national health system in Spain … Barometer 1996-2009 and taking advantage of the exogeneity of the different pace of decentralization across Spain, we find that …, in general, decentralization has not improved citizens’ satisfaction with different features of the health services. In …

This paper examines delivery of public health care services in India, in the broader context of decentralization. It … recent policy proposals on the public provision of health care, in the context of decentralization. Finally, it makes …

As Gandhi often pointed out, India lives in villages and unless village life can be revitalized the nation as a whole … can hardly come alive. When India became independent in 1947, perhaps one-third of the villages of India had traditional … government introduced Panchayati Raj system in India through the 73rd Constitutional Amendment in 1992. The article mainly …

This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and … development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal … institutions, the analysis focuses on the major issues with respect to India’s federal system in terms of their developmental …

India’s health care and health financing provision is characterized by too little Government spending on health, meager … level of health insurance penetration in India. Health insurance cover is found to be a strong determinant of modern health …

aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …

estimation of services sector GDP …