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The Political Economy of Village Sanitation in South India : Capture or Poor Information ?
Ban, Radu; Das Gupta, Monica; Rao, Vijayendra - 2012
Despite efforts to mandate and finance local governments' provision of environmental sanitation services, outcomes remain poor in the villages surveyed in the four South Indian states. The analysis indicates some key issues that appear to hinder improvements in sanitation. Local politicians tend...
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Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action : A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia
Rao, Vijayendra - 2012
understanding collective action. He illustrates the point by contrasting how conceptions of nationalism in Indonesia and India …-help) that was both internalized and coercively enforced. India emphasized democratic decentralization through the panchayat …-efficiency tradeoff. Indonesia has delivered public services much more efficiently than India did, but at the cost of democratic freedoms …
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