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  Collective action promotes economic development in Kerala

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Public participation in social and political decision-making is considered to be an essential condition for successful economic development. Through collective action and participation, people (particularly poor people) get a valuable opportunity to voice their needs and demands. But what type and what level of collective action will help rather than harm economic development?
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  Providing services to enhance citizenship and improve accountability: information is key

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006

  This paper looks at the connection between democratic accountability and enhancing service provision for the poor.
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  Well-being and caste in Uttar Pradesh: why UP is not like Tamil Nadu

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006

  The mobilisation of the lower classes has lead to a significant improvement in social indicators in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Meanwhile in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the lower classes have only experienced a symbolic increase in power.
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  Unpacking rights and wrongs: do human rights make a difference?: the case of water rights in India and South Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper focuses on why poor and marginalised people still lack access to economic, social and cultural rights despite a fairly mainstream support to positive rights in mainstream development debates.
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  The public distribution systems of foodgrains and implications for food security

  2006

  What are the differences between the Public Distribution Systems (PDS) of foodgrains in India and China? This paper compares these two systems and how they have helped to improve national food security, food security of the general public, and food security of the poor.In the 1990s both India and China reformed their PDS, but each following a different path.
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  DFID KaR Action Research on :Improving transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of pro-poor government services

  Knowledge and Research Programme on Disability and Healthcare Technology, DFID, 2006

  This report and toolkit focuses on how ICTs can improve the effectiveness of public service delivery to the poor and vulnerable.
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  Getting to the core: a global survey on the cost of registration and election

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  This document is a step-by-step guide to election processes around the world. It explains what measures need to be in place, from voter registration to ballot-box security, and at what price, before the first ballot is cast.
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  Decentralisation in Asian health sectors: friend or foe?

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This policy brief examines whether or not healthcare decentralisation in Asia has been successful.
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  A new agenda to eradicate poverty in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Over 75 million more Africans lived in poverty at the end of the 1990s than a decade earlier. Increasing aid and reforming trade through international campaigns and donor programmes is not working. The role of the state must be changed if poverty in Africa is to be reduced.
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  Successful governance reforms in two Indian States: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This paper analyses governance reforms in two southern states in India’s federal system, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

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