pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Reforms and electoral democracy -- pt. 3. Reforms, governance and the state. - Mostly revised version of papers presented at the Seminar on the Politics of Economic Reforms in India, held at Hyderabad in April 2002.

This article discusses, compares and contrasts the politics of food policy implementation in two Indian States: Karnataka in South India and Bihar in North India. Both states are covered by the Public Distribution System (PDS), a major intervention in the Indian food economy intended to reduce...

The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD has set target rates of poverty incidence and levels of a number of human development indicators as goals to be met with the aid of development assistance by the years 2005 and 2015. In this paper we assess the likelihood that these goals...