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    The human impact of climate change in India

    Oxfam India, 2009
    A primer for parliamentarians on climate change; This booklet seeks to explain the processes that are behind the change in climate and highlight the very real, human impact of climate change in India. Further this booklet addresses ways to combat climate change and ultimately protect social development prospects for future generations.
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    Grassroots speakout on UN Women: outcome document

    Huairou Commission, 2011
    On March 2nd, grassroots women leaders from around the world voiced their key recommendations and experiences to Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Dr. Michelle Bachelet, and other representatives of UN Women and governments. A supportive audience of leaders of the global women’s movement and gender advocates filled the room beyond capacity.
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    Computer Society of India Special Interest Group on eGovernance

    Computer Society of India ( CSI ), has implemented the concept of “Special Interest Groups” to promote activities and research in few focused areas.
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    ICT and good governance: A study of Indian environment

    Computer Society of India Special Interest Group on eGovernance, 2008
    This paper give a snapshot of the possible barriers in Indian environment in the implementation of e governance applications and draws a meaningful framework in this direction to workout alternative solutions to remove these barriers. It examines how the presence of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws may affect how countries govern.
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    Pensions for life?: id21 insights, issue 42

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The 1990s could well qualify as the decade of global pension reform. A number of countries in Latin America and some transition economies radically transformed their pension provision and moved swiftly towards privately provided individual retirement plans.
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    Water and sanitation goals: id21 insights, issue 45

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.
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    Grass root democracy and empowerment of people: evaluation of Panchayati Raj in India

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2007
    At independence, about a third of the villages in India had flourishing traditional Panchayats. The government decided to promote their creation as effective units of local self- government with the aim of fostering democratic participation by involving villagers in the development of their communities to reduce the costs of administration.
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    The correlates of corruption in India: analysis and evidence from the states

    The Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg, 2010
    Several leading indicators show that corruption is a fairly serious problem in India. However, there is a substantial variance of levels of perceived and experienced corruption by citizens across the country. This paper considers testable hypotheses from the growing literature on the determinants of corruption and applies them to Indian states.
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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    Religions, democracy and governance: spaces for the marginalized in contemporary India

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2009
    Religious identity remains the bedrock of social life and individual experience in India. Nevertheless, this paper deems that Indian democratic politics brings out new alignments, which surface repeatedly as a basis for articulating demands for access to opportunities and development possibilities.

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