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  Making European aid democratic

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  European Community (EC) development aid claims to be focused on poverty reduction, human rights, participation and democracy. But it is debatable how much civil society organisations influence the Country Strategy Papers that determine how this aid is distributed. 
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  Time to focus on India’s poorly performing states

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Differences in wealth between Indian states are increasing and central government efforts to promote greater inter-state equity have been disappointing. Aid, investment and central government revenues have often gone to better-off states because needy states have been labelled ‘difficult’ places to work in.
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  Role of interest groups, institutions and civil society in development: lessons from India’s experience

  Global Development Network, 2004

  The contrasting development experiences of countries like Brazil and India on the one hand and those of East Asia and China on the other, have raised fundamental questions about the determinants of economic growth and mainly about the effectiveness of economic growth in improving the quality of life.
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  Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh: a three-year assessment

  Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India, 2005

  This paper investigates the case of GM (Genetically Modified) Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is based on a three-year assessment of farmers' engagement with Bt cotton, examining the economics of its adoption, and the resultant difficulties faced by farmers.
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  Women, political parties and social movements in South Asia

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This UNRISD occasional paper - addressing issues regarding women, parties and movements in South Asia - was written for the preparation of the report, ‘Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world’.
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  A framework for scaling up poverty reduction, with illustrations from South Asia

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2005

  This paper develops a framework for thinking about the policy challenge of scaling up small scale interventions - both governmental and non-governmental - that address poverty reduction. The framework sees scaling up as addressing different components of market failure, government failure and civil society failure.
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  Faith, equity and development

  World Bank, 2005

  This theoretical paper, based on existing research, assesses the influence that religious movements have on the development process. The concept of identity politics is used to interpret the motivation for and principles of these movements.The paper is presented in five parts.
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  Rivalry or synergy?: formal and informal local governance in rural India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Informal local governance institutions (ILGIs) are complex organisations, which continue to be prevalent at village level in rural India. Although generally perceived by educated Indians to be “oppressive”, ILGIs also have progressive features and often perform a range of useful, collective functions at the village level.
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  Institutional change and its impact on the poor and excluded: the Indian decentralisation experience

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  This study analyses the impact of democratic decentralisation on the chances of socially excluded groups to participate in newly created local governance institutions – Panchayati Raj Institutions within three Indian states.
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  Process deficits or political constraints? bottom-up evaluation of non-contributory social protection policy for rural labourers in India

  Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin, 2005

  Often, the implementation of anti-poverty programmes has been evaluated on the basis of their outcomes rather than the process of implementation. Such methods of evaluation assume that good outcome indicators are the result of good implementation.

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