determination succeed in contributing to societal development are narrated. [Address at the Launching of the Post-Centenary Golden …

that this causes institutions to become weaker and people to get poorer. It is argued that economic power through property … holdings or human capital gives people the means to hold their leaders accountable. In the absence of such distributed power …

infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are crucial for regional infrastructure development …This study is a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the linkages between governance, institutions, and regional … regions) with higher income, stronger institutions, better governance, and more open economies are likely to have higher …

In this paper the diverse dimensions of gender development are examined using individual indicators for the districts …, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. Using a selected set of indicators, the levels of women’s development in … ranking exercise that highlights relative levels of development or backwardness. [CWDS] …

recovery, reform of sector policies and institutions alone, is unlikely to mobilise private investment for power development … for power development. Based on a brief review of Indian experience, it suggests that in the absence of requisite cost …

The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by … InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, and … country studies carried out with partners in Argentina, Uruguay, Tanzania, South Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ICT was …

civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …

In 2008, three global crises converged to threaten development in the Asia-Pacific region, bringing to the fore … these policy tensions through the principles of sustainability and inclusiveness the development process of the Asia …