The management of increasingly scarce natural resources is perhaps the most important governance challenge facing humanity today. The designing of appropriate systems for natural resource management by local governments is an interesting policy challenge. This has to be approached objectively...

This article examines the nature of India's federal system, and recent and potential reforms in its structure and working. We summarize key federal institutions in India, focusing particularly on the mechanisms for Center-state transfers. These transfers are large, and are the major explicit...