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Searching with a thematic focus on Governance, Privatisation of infrastructure in India

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  Significance of rural non farm sector in enterprise development

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  This paper argues that the Indian government could be more actively involved in creating the necessary environment for effective public-private partnerships.
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  Plumbing a new institutional economics: sustainable water supply systems for Tamilnadu, India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can costly infrastructure such as water supply systems be made more sustainable? In the past, technocrats have set the design criteria, but how important are political and institutional factors? What costs and charges should policymakers take into consideration? And who else holds a stake in water supply?
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  Politics and provision On-the-ground realities of water and sanitation development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Addressing the challenge of water and sanitation under-provision requires a subtle understanding of several factors: the nature of the resource, the wider poverty environments in which millions of people live and the politics within which problems are framed and solutions are sought. How do current policy debates deal with these factors?
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  Subsidy or self-respect? Lessons from Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In large parts of Bangladesh, people in both rural and urban areas practice open defecation. Despite 30 years of efforts by international agencies and non-governmental organisations to improve environmental sanitation, it is hard to find even 100 villages out of nearly 85 000 that are completely sanitised.
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  Urban sanitation: are the poor being heard?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The international commitment to provide basic services for all has yet to be achieved for a high percentage of the urban poor. Residents of densely crowded settlements endure the indignity, shame and sickness that lack of sanitation produces. Improved sanitation will provide real benefits to the lives and livelihoods of the poor.
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  Can information and communications technology applications contribute to poverty reduction?: lessons from rural India

  Development Gateway, 2003

  This paper explores a number of case studies of initiatives using ICTs for poverty reduction in rural India. It details individual case studies as well as broader ways in which ICTs might contribute to poverty reduction.The authors then describe an economic model to explain the digital divide between rich and poor, that discusses costs in time and costs of access as impediments to ICT use.
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  India: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 1999

  Following independence in 1947, India and its leaders believed that an interventionist industry-led approach to development was the key to eradicating poverty. Ambitious targets were set for the expansion of health services, according to strictly defined population based norms which would be provided free at the point of service.
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  Why paper mills clean up : determinants of pollution abatement in four Asian countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Clean production is not uncommon even in very poor countries such as Bangladesh. Even when there is no formal regulation of pollution, large, efficient, domestically owned plants operating near relatively affluent communities have demonstrated excellent environmental performance. The same cannot be said for manufacturing facilities near poor communities.
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  Roads and realities: how to promote road contracting in developing countries

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2000

  Book available in full-text contains ideas, methods and techniques for the provision of local road networks. It is aimed at policy-makers, construction professionals and students involved in the practical side of the sector and development specialists in and outside the sector.
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  Sustaining high rates of economic growth in India

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001

  This article looks at means of strengthening India's growth strategy.The article suggests:a strategy focussing on export-led growth, which among other things requires greater emphasis on special economic zones, and openness of the economy, liberalization in India's labor laws, de-reservation of products for the small scale industry and other measures for the deregulation of India's priv

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