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...

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...

This empirical exercise examines the impact of network externalities under social capital in a gender sensitive planning on joint forest management programme in West Bengal. One impact is that building up higher level of social capital has been more successful in programme participating villages...