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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Governance in India

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  Access to Land in Rural India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.
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  Alleviating poverty: role of good governance and constitutional reform

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000

  This article explores the role that good governance and constitutional reform might play in poverty alleviation in India.Policy recommendations:There is a need for the state to move out of many areas, which it has previously occupied.
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  Same platform, different train: the politics of participation

  The Corner House, UK, 1998

  Deals with the politics of participation in the Western Ghats Forestry Project (India).
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  Kingship, bureaucracy and participation: competing moralities of ‘decentralisation’ in south Indian irrigation

  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000

  This paper attempts a long view of decentralisation in irrigation management in parts of south India. In doing so, it has attempted to place present day ‘Participatory Irrigation Management’ in perspective, particularly by drawing attention to antecedent forms of ‘decentralisation’ and suggesting that some of the practices and moralities involved persist today.
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  Improving the operation of urban water supply systems in India: a discussion of unaccounted for water

  US Agency for International Development, 2000

  Project report from the Indo-US FIRE(D) project which aims to institutionalise the delivery of commercially viable urban infrastructure and services at the state, regional and national levels.
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  Enhancing rural Livelihoods through Participatory Watershed Development in India

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  India is remarkable not only in the scale of its wastelands, and in the volume of government funds committed to reversing degradation, but especially in the attempt to link environmental improvement and poverty reduction.

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