Fiscal health of subnational governments is a priority area of concern in the contemporary policy debate in India. The central government has recently announced that Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal are fiscally unsound at the level of general category states. The study reviews this projection by...

The study examines extent of women's dependence on forest and their participation in gender sensitive planning of joint forest management programme in West Bengal, where the provincial government made pioneer attempt during early 1990s by establishing separate female forest management unit to...

This study seeks to explore the impact of a moral hazard problem in the Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme between the government and forest fringe communities of a province in West Bengal, India. It suggests that if there is no incentive plan for the poor, it is hard for the government to...