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 … research emphasizes building state capacity to implement and monitor public programs, rewarding performance of civil servants …

The development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural …

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 … these laws, and (3) the degree of decentralization of jurisdictions with respect to local public goods. It is suggested that …

This paper models fiscal effects of foreign aid in a federal system of governance. Our main innovation is to … spending that the government would have undertaken anyway; funds freed by aid are spent on non-development activities, and (ii …

This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with … quality of service delivery. We examine the resources and capacity of the subnational entities that are responsible for key … services such as water, sanitation, education and health care, and the impacts of decentralization on service quality and the …