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Financing Resources for Rural Water and Sanitation

Trisha Agarwala

  • 31 December 2018
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Relevance of tracking 14th FC funds for rural water and sanitation: The 14th Finance Commission (14th FC) facilitated the transfer of resources between the national and State (sub-national)...

Health Care Financing in India: Time to Revisit Policy Framework

Mampi Bose

  • 27 December 2018
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India’s health system has been going through an incessant transformation since pre-colonial period. Combination of four basic health financing models, namely, Beveridge, Bismarck, National Health...

The Most Important Success of Demonetisation No One is Talking About

Suraj Jaiswal

  • 7 December 2018
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8th of November last month completed 2nd anniversary of demonetisation. The most remarkable aspect about the policy decision of demonetisation was the sheer number of people it directly affected...

Administrative Decentralisation to Panchayats: Imperative for Rural Development

Jawed Alam Khan

  • 30 November 2018
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There has been disparity between rural and urban areas across the country in terms of many socio-economic and infrastructural development indicators. People in rural areas, generally, have lower...

The lack of democracy in the international financial order

Neeti Biyani

  • 19 November 2018
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The Paradise Papers, Panama Papers, Lux Leaks and Swiss Leaks have presented rare insights into the murky workings of secrecy jurisdictions, financial opacity and enablers of illicit financial flows...

Budget Transparency at the Local Governments in India: Missing Links-I

Nilachala Acharya

  • 12 November 2018
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Availability of budget data / information through various reports and web portals of a government is considered as one of the strong pillars of budget transparency. Since governments deal with public...

The long road to seeking accountability for the makers of modern India

Rakshita Swamy

  • 6 November 2018
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A recently concluded social audit of the implementation of Building and other Construction Workers (BOCW) Act in Delhi and Rajasthan clearly demonstrated that construction workers who build and make...

Privatisation in Health Sector: Signs of Warning

Richa Chintan

  • 30 October 2018
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“There are virtually no limits on what can be privatised”, so opined the World Bank in 1992[1]. However, at that time, the concept of privatisation was used largely in the context of industrial...

Deconstructing Gender and Intersectional Identities

Priyanka Samy

  • 29 October 2018
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How would you situate a Trans-Dalit-Muslim woman, especially when her identity is intersected by factors such as poverty, disability or her status of being a migrant? Should her identity be defined...

Education as Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) - Hype or Hope?

Protiva Kundu

  • 12 October 2018
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Friedman in his book Capitalism and Freedom argued that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits...

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