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    Rights and livelihoods approaches: exploring policy dimensions

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    How do rights-based and livelihoods approaches to development complement each other? How can livelihoods-focused policy be built on a rights framework? This Overseas Development Institute (ODI) paper in the Natural Resource Perspectives (NRP) series examines the ways in which pro-poor rights-based work can support and enhance livelihoods-based development policy.
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    Implementing a public-private partnership model for managing urban health in Ahmedabad

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2007
    This paper describes the design, development and implementation of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) for managing urban health services in Ahmedabad city in the Indian state of Gujarath.
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    Urban development strategy for Bihar: a management perspective

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2008
    Bihar is among the least urbanised states in India with a level of urbanisation just above 10 per cent in 2001. This study suggests a four-stage strategy for the urban development of Bihar. The stages are
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    Basic amenities in urban India: analysis at state and town level

    2007
    This study examines India’s progress in the provision of basic amenities to urban areas at the state level during the period 1991-2001, and attempts to explain difference in the performance across the states. It also examines the relationship between achievements in health and education, and the availability of urban basic amenities.The main findings include:
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    Making decentralisation work for children in Andhra Pradesh, India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The Indian Government is committed to reducing child poverty. With decentralisation, state governments are expected to implement programmes relevant to child welfare. An analysis of budget allocations indicates that policy objectives are not being supported with funding that prioritises child-focused programmes.
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    Challenges to India’s ‘rise to power’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    India’s elevated position in the global community is underpinned by a booming economy, nuclear weapons status and veto power in several international institutions. But this rise to power is neither as sudden nor as secure as it appears. India has huge domestic challenges to overcome before it can be considered a global power.
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    Colonial land tenure, electoral competition and public goods in India

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008
    This study addresses the question: do areas under landlord-based systems develop differently compared to areas which were under other land tenure systems? The authors answer this question by comparing outcomes in the two types of areas in the post-colonial period which is more than a hundred years after these systems were put in place.The study finds that that:
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    Just Rewards? local politics and public resource allocation in South India

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2007
    This paper examines how political influence is used in allocating public resources in a sample of south Indian villages. The authors focus on four facets of the political process:
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    Law and poverty: the legal system and poverty reduction

    Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2008
    Poverty tends to be considered as an economic subject area rather than a legal one. And yet, a society’s distribution of income and opportunity is the outcome of its legal system which may encourage or fail to prevent various forms of marginalisation.
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    Rights-based approaches to forest conservation

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    In context of the recent emergence of the debate on rights-based approaches (RBA) to conservation, this paper provides a collaborative piece of work on the constitution of RBA’s and some of the key issues surrounding them. It also looks at some examples from countries where there is a need for RBA’s.

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