This paper examines the functioning of some of India's institutions of governance, namely, the legislative and … executive branches of government, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy, from an instrumental, economic perspective. Governance is … India's experience of governance reflects insufficiencies in all three dimensions: of durability, enforcement, and …

and promoting development. The article discusses changes that have taken place in India with regard to governance reforms …, focusing on reforms related to decentralisation. A review of available evidence does not provide any definitive conclusion … about the effectiveness of decentralisation in facilitating democratic deepening and improving the responsiveness of …

good governance (using latent variable approach) and a financial decentralisation index. Panel data is employed to explore … if better quality of institutional arrangements (of governance and more financial decentralisation) lead to better …