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    Utility regulation: residential demand for water

    Business Administration Department, Sambalpur University, 2007
    Water utilities are under significant financial pressure as a result of increasing urbanization, deteriorating infrastructure, and increasingly stringent drinking water-quality regulations. In addition, recurring droughts and the difficulty of developing new sources of supply indicate that water is becoming scarce.
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    Global Corruption Report 2007

    Transparency International, 2007
    This year’s report concentrates on judicial systems and warns that corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world, denying citizens access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial. The report provides comparative analysis of judicial corruption based on 32 country reports and provides
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    Local institutions and social policy for children: opportunities and constraints of participatory service delivery

    Young Lives, 2007
    This paper evaluates an attempt in Andhara Pradesh to improve the outreach, quality and accountability of education, health and early childhood development services. The project specifically aims to involve parents closely with their children’s monitoring and management.
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    Making government budgets more accessible and equitable

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Involvement in the budget process in poor countries has traditionally been limited to a select group of political actors. But this has changed over the last decade with legislators, civil society groups and the media playing a more active role. What impact is broader engagement having?
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    India human rights report 2007

    Asian Centre for Human Rights, India, 2007
    The new India Human Rights Report 2007 by the Asian Centre for Human Rights details the main human rights abuses in India by state, each chapter describing state-specific abuses. The report concludes that the Naxalites and other armed opposition groups (AOGs) are responsible for the worst current violations of international humanitarian laws in India.
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    Time to articulate the right to water?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Target ten of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people without sustainable and safe access to water. Although attempts have been made to link the MDGs and human rights, promoting a right to water achieves little if institutions, norms and values remain unchanged.
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    Reformulating the role of bureaucracy through e-government reform in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Information technology plays a central role in government reform projects in India. In recent years, these projects have been launched under the label of ‘e-government’. The state of Gujarat is one of the first in the country to have achieved wide access to its e-government services, but are these services working effectively?
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    Citizens and science - whose knowledge counts?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Science and technology development have major implications for tackling poverty and promoting well-being in developing countries. Recent controversies, such as genetically modified food crops and AIDS drugs, have created new dimensions and needs for public involvement in decision-making.Some questions that the Citizenship DRC sought to answer include:
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    Making accountability count

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Accountability is fundamentally a relationship of power. When accountability mechanisms work, citizens are able to make demands on powerful institutions and ensure that those demands are met. Accountability is therefore about democracy, rights and citizenship.
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    Spaces for change?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Governance reforms in some countries have encouraged government officials to meet with citizens in formal meeting places to help make decisions at local and national levels. Citizens are increasingly able to participate in meetings, exchange information and negotiate agendas with state officials on issues concerning them.

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