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Babken, Babajanian - 2014

This paper examines different approaches for promoting empowerment and discusses conditions required for effective empowerment. It focuses on three empowerment models, including grievance redress, participatory performance monitoring, and community-driven development. There are three sets of...

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Governance and public service delivery in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported … Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the …

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Institutional Change in the Non-Market Economy : Endogenous Matching in Chennai's Chit Fund Auctions

Eeckhout, Jan; Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2003

This paper tests the proposition that non-market institutions can respond flexibly to changes in the economic environment that they operate in, using data from Chennai's chit fund auctions. These auctions bring borrowers and lenders together in small groups, and starting from September 1993,...

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Long-Term Financial Incentives and Investment in Daughters : Evidence from Conditional Cash Transfers in North India

Sinha, Nistha; Yoong, Joanne - 2009

Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son preference among parents and to encourage investments in daughters' education and health. This study evaluates one such program in the state of Haryana, Apni Beti Apna Dhan (Our...

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Participatory Governance and Pro-Poor Targeting : Evidence from Central India

Kumar, Neha - 2009

relationship between local governance and the participatory elements of a CDD project. In particular, it examines the spillovers of … effectiveness of empowerment strategies as a means of improving local governance and identifies the mechanisms through which this … participatory governance that were broken by the external influence of this CDD project …

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The Role of Bribes in Rural Governance : The Case of India

Nagarajan, Hari K.; Jha, Raghbendra; Pradhan, Kailash C. - 2013

Given that the phenomenon of capture of public programs by sections the population is rampant in developing countries, households can indulge in a strategy to improve their participating in public programs by bribing the suppliers of such programs. This is an important issue affecting both the...

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Political selection and the quality of government : evidence from South India

Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini; Rao, V. K. R. V. - 2005

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Political selection and the qualilty of government : evidence from South India

Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini; Rao, Vijayendra - 2005

This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of village politicians, and how individual and village characteristics affect politician behavior while in office. Education increases the chances of selection to public office and reduces the odds that a...

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Seeking the local state : gender, caste, and the pursuit of public services in post-tsunami India

Kruks-Wisner, Gabrielle - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 39 (2011) 7, pp. 1143-1154

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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

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