Decentralisation in Contemporary India: Status, Issues and the Way Forward - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0367545950 ISBN 13: 9780367545956

Verlag: Routledge India, 2021

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This volume examines the process of decentralisation in India since the 1992 legislations which devolved powers to local government bodies to ensure greater participation in local governance and planning.

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D. Rajasekhar is HAG Professor in Economics at the Centre for Decentralisation and Development (CDD), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru. He was Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Oxford, Melbourne, Hitotsubashi, Sussex, and at the Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen. He has worked extensively on decentralisation, social protection, and microfinance, and served in policy bodies constituted by the government. His publications include Decentralised Governance, Development Programmes and Elite Capture (2018) and Cooperatives and Social Innovations: Experiences from the Asia Pacific Region (2020).

R. Manjula holds a PhD in economics and works as Assistant Professor at the Centre for Decentralisation and Development at ISEC, Bengaluru. She was an Academic Visitor to the University of Oxford, UK, and a Visiting Scholar to the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. She has worked on research projects, covering themes of decentralisation, child labour, social security, health insurance, public works programme, and public service delivery.

M. Devendra Babu is an Honorary Professor at Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University, Gadag, Karnataka, and formerly Professor at the Centre for Decentralisation and Development, ISEC. His areas of interest are fiscal decentralisation, local planning, and public economics. He has published books (co-authored) as well as articles in national and international journals on different aspects of decentralisation. He was previously involved in 'District Perspective Plans' and 'District Human Development Reports'.

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• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367545950
• ISBN 13: 9780367545956
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278
• Herausgeber: Rajasekhar D., Manjula R, Babu M Devendra
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