This paper examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. The data are taken from oDesk … to choose a worker in India. This higher placement is the result of a greater likelihood of choosing India for the …

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …

This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in … relationships, to emphasize the underlying political economy drivers of accountability and implications for how civil society is … political relations between citizens, civil society, and state leadership. The evidence broadly suggests that when higher …

pressures from civil society leaders can reform local governance in a context where neither of these mechanisms operates …, one in which only village heads were trained on the framework governing village leadership, and one in which civil society … leaders were trained alongside village heads. The results suggest that horizontal pressure from civil society leaders …