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Public-Private Partnerships and Contract Choice in India's Water and Wastewater Sector
Vedachalam, Sridhar; Geddes, Rick; Riha, Susan - 2017
Public provision of water and wastewater services in urban India has been a noteworthy failure. Open defecation, mixing … of untreated wastewater with stormwater and drinking water supplies, and unreliable water services have added up to a … widespread use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Indian water and wastewater sector. We analyze 163 water and …
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Combating Corruption in Indian Public Procurement – Some Exploratory Case Studies
Nag, Bodhibrata - 2017
This paper has adopted the exploratory case study method of analyzing a few recent cases of public procurement irregularities on Indian Railways documented by the vigilance departments and the CAG available in public domain to inquire into the following issues: (a) how do irregularities and...
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A Case Study of Metronet PPP in the UK : Implications for India
Sheikh, Shahana - 2015
infrastructure and social sector challenges. Among the key implications arising from the Metronet PPP case study for India are the … needs. Intangible aspects involving social and political norms of the stakeholders were found to play an important role in …
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Explaining Obstacles to ‘Total Sanitation’ in India with Spatial Methods : Evidence from the District Level Household Survey
Pierce, Greg - 2014
Inadequate toilet use directly contributes to high rates of morbidity and mortality in India. Despite a strong research focus on sanitation solutions, understanding of the determinants of toilet use in India is remarkably poor. This paper uses spatial analysis techniques to explain variation in...
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Financing Common Goods for Health : A Public Administration Perspective from India
Shah, Ajay - 2020
disposal systems, polluted air and water, among other issues. For example, with the construction of roads catering to high …
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Infectious Diseases, Contamination Rumors and Ethnic Violence : Regimental Mutinies in the Bengal Native Army in 1857 India
Dutta, Sunasir - 2017
The current paper connects anxiety about disease contamination to that about cultural contamination and the exclusionary behavior toward ethnic outgroups that it incites. We suggest that when individuals are exposed to disease fears, an epistemic groundwork is laid for construing outgroups as...
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Covid's First and Second Waves in India : Lessons and Policy Implications
Srivastava, D. K.; Bharadwaj, Muralikrishna; Kapur, Tarrung - 2021
In this paper, we argue that in a supply deficient situation, a vaccination strategy that makes use of an analysis of the different stages of the Covid waves and the pattern of their geographical spread can prove to be far more effective than the current non-transparent mechanism of interstate...
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Financing of S&T in India
Abrol, Dinesh Kumar; Upadhyay, Vinod Kumar; Sikka, Pawan - 2009
In this paper we assess the changes experienced in the pattern of public funding of science and technology (S&T) at the national and state levels since the launch of economic reforms in India. First, it brings out that though more recently an improvement has been experienced in the gross...
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Financing Rural Infrastructure in Developing Countries : The Case of India
Rajaraman, Indira - 2008
Motivated by the robust empirical evidence on the positive growth and poverty eradication outcomes of public investment in rural infrastructure, this paper investigates variations in utilization by subnational state governments in India of a recent non-concessional lending facility for financing...
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The Political Economy of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Spending in Andhra Pradesh
Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - 2014
While government spending on pro-poor community asset creation and income-transfers could have compounding positive effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to the susceptibility of the program to political...
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