Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, Panchayats, and the Rural Poor in India

Gaiha, Raghav; Kaushik, P. D.; Kulkarni, Vani S.

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“…Case studies have shown that caste and local politics prevent the effective empowerment of minority groups (Gaiha et al, 1998). For example, even in the socially progressive state of Kerala the tribal population is 'deprived of their lands by the government and the immigrants' (Baviskar and Mathew, 2009, p. 12).…”

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Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India

Bhalla¹,

Luo²

2013

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Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India

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Luo²

2013

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“…Widespread poverty and social divisions such as caste also make individual or collective action to improve service delivery difficult in these settings. 14 Uttar Pradesh ranks 23 out of 32 states in India in terms of the proportion of people living below the poverty line. 15 The poverty line in India is defined as the amount of money needed to purchase one's caloric needs and does not include money required for clothing or shelter.…”

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Informing Resource-Poor Populations and the Delivery of Entitled Health and Social Services in Rural India

Pandey

Sehgal

Riboud³

et al. 2007

JAMA

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HE DELIVERY OF HEALTH AND SOcial services is often inadequate in developing countries such as India in part because of limited resources allocated by governments and donor agencies. 1,2 However, increased spending by itself may not be sufficient to improve outcomes. Efficiently targeting resources to impoverished communities and getting public workers to perform their duties have remained significant challenges for many public services worldwide. 1,[3][4][5] Inadequate service delivery may result from weak mechanisms of accountability in developing countries. 1,[6][7][8] For example, 25% to 35% of publicly funded health workers and school teachers are absent on any given day but are rarely fired for repeated absences. 9-11 A number of developing countries, including India, are decentralizing control over local public services to local communities, 12,13 which is intended to increase service providers' accountability to the local community. 7 However, anecdotal reports and surveys indicate that communities and members of local government are uninformed of what services they are entitled to and what statemandated controls they have over these

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“…As one might expect, states where caste politics are more salient, and vestiges of feudalism greater, are more subject to local elite capture. For example, Gaiha et al (1998Gaiha et al ( , 2000 conclude the following about Uttar Pradesh, based on a qualitative analysis: It is probable that similar conclusions can be reached for other states and regions of India that are similar to Uttar Pradesh in social structures and level of development.…”

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Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization in India

Singh

2007

SSRN Journal

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This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with an overview of the basic features and recent developments in intergovernmental fiscal relations, including the role of political institutions, the specifics of legislative and budgetary autonomy, assignments of expenditure responsibility and revenue authority, revenue collection mechanisms, the system of intergovernmental transfers, and institutions and mechanisms for borrowing by subnational units. We then provide a diagnosis of accountability mechanisms, examining their quality of functioning and distortions and constraints. In particular, we analyze to what extent, and through what mechanisms, lower-level governments are held accountable to higher-level governments, the extent to which policies of subnational governments are affected by the competition for mobile firms, taxpayers, and investment capital, the functioning of credit markets, including the responsiveness of subnational governments to credit ratings and bond yields, and the role of democratic electoral channels at national and subnational levels in providing accountability in the provision of subnational public goods. Next, we review the implications of the intergovernmental system and accountability mechanisms on the cooperation of subnational governments and the 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 distribution of benefits among elected officials, citizens and interest groups. Finally, we offer a concluding assessment with suggestions for reform priorities.JEL codes: P26, P35, H1, H7

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Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, Panchayats, and the Rural Poor in India

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Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India

Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India

Informing Resource-Poor Populations and the Delivery of Entitled Health and Social Services in Rural India

Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization in India

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