Disproportionately high investment in irrigation has nevertheless been marked by long time overruns in completion of projects and a far lower area than that targeted being brought under irrigation. To what extent irrigation has succeeded in increasing and stabilising paddy yields is considered....

This study analyses the impact of democratic decentralisation on the chances of socially excluded groups to participate in newly created local governance institutions – Panchayati Raj Institutions – in three Indian states. This institutional reform included a quota for the disadvantaged –...

This article examines the operation of Kudumbashree, the Poverty Eradication Mission for the Indian State of Kerala. Kudumbashree operates through female-only Neighbourhood Groups, which aim to contribute to their participants' economic uplift, and to integrate them with the activities and...

The adverse sex ratio, a feature of India, is an outcome of two forms of inequality; natal inequality through sex-selective abortion, and mortality inequality. The analysis of trends in mortality inequality at the infant stage, which is the subject of this paper, in the rural and urban areas of...