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    Tariff-based incentives for improving coal-power-plant efficiencies in India

    Elsevier, 2007
    The recent restructuring of the Indian electricity sector offers an important route to improving power plant efficiency, through regulatory mechanisms that allow for an independent tariff setting process for bulk purchases of electricity from generators.
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    Improving land access for India's rural poor

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2008
    Since Independence, India’s states have employed several land reform ‘tools,’ including reforming tenancy, imposing land ceilings, distributing government wasteland, and allocating house sites and homestead plots. This article briefly summarises some of these past efforts and attempts to draw broad lessons for informing possible policy paths ahead.
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    Administrative reforms in India: need for systems approach to problem solving

    International Public Management Review, 2006
    While observing that there is a lot to commend the Indian civil service for, this article focuses on the deficiencies that have crept in the services over last few years. It attempts to present a critique of the service from the perspective of an insider with a view to ridding it of its malaise.
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    Peri-urban dynamics: case studies in Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai

    Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, 2006
    The concentration of population towards metropolitan centres and its diffusion to their peripheries has resulted in complex problems such as land scarcity, inward and outward mobility of labour, economic, social and spatial segregation of population between the core and periphery. Peripheral development is a recent phenomenon in India and is not well researched.
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    Making the Indian budget: how open and participatory?

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007
    Open and participatory budget making is essential for good governance. Analysing the process of budget making in India, this article says by international standards India fares poorly on this count. The participation of both the public and parliament has been inadequate.
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    Need for a national law for prevention of torture

    Asian Centre for Human Rights, India, 2007
    Despite the widespread use of torture by the police and armed forces in India, the country has no laws to address the problem. Furthermore, under the Indian legal system, there is no enforceable right to compensation for persons claiming to be victims of unlawful arrest or detention.
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    The right to adequate food in India

    FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 2008
    India has an obligation under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) to guarantee the right to be free from hunger and the right to adequate food. But how successfully has the State been in achieving this?
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    Impact assessment study of e-government projects in India

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2007
    Over the last decade various Indian states have implemented a number of e-government projects but there has not been any systematic study to assess their impact. This study fills this gap to some extent by employing a general framework to assess the e-government impact in India.
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    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

    The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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    ICT infrastructure in emerging Asia. Policy and regulatory roadblocks

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book addresses an important question: can technology by itself improve access to ICTs or must the policy and regulatory pre-conditions be satisfied in order to realise the potential of technological and service innovations?

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