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Public Expenditure Review for Nutrition in Jharkhand

CBGA

• 30 June 2020
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The report, developed in collaboration with Save the Children, India examines public expenditure on nutrition in Jharkhand and one of its under performing districts, West Singhbhum to explore why the...

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Numbers on the Edge: Assessing India's Fiscal Response to COVID-19

CBGA

• 29 May 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare our pre-existing fault lines and exposed the country to an unprecedented crisis. This situation calls for timely and bold policy measures by governments at all...

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The Budget Trails: Fiscal Governance Reforms at District Level for Improving Fund Flow and Utilisation in Development Schemes

CBGA

• 24 January 2020
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The Budget Trails series of knowledge products emerged out of a two-year project carried out by CBGA and the Tata Trusts, which focused on the extent and quality of fund utilisation in ten centrally...

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Use and Abuse of Tax Breaks

CBGA

• 15 January 2020
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The report analyses the impact of tax incentives on national economies that have widely been used to attract investment. Yet the use of a variety of tax incentives, as the report documents, has been...

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Trapped in Illicit Finance: How abusive tax and trade practices harm human rights

CBGA

• 30 September 2019
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In this report, Christian Aid, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability and Fundación SES, members of the Financial Transparency Coalition, urges developed nations and the UN to stop...

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Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SMSA) from the Girls' Education Lens: An Initial Analysis

CBGA

• 1 April 2019
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The government of India recently launched Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SMSA) for school education. Bridging gender and social category gaps at all levels of school education is one of the major...

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Women's Safety in Public Spaces in Ranchi and Hazaribag: Governance and Budgetary Challenges

CBGA

• 12 March 2019
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There has been much attention to the issue of ending violence against women and girls both in terms of policy and programme responses. While a number of schemes have been put into place, there is a...

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Assessing Budgetary Priorities for the Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour

CBGA

• 8 September 2018
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The study is a detailed assessment of the government’s scheme for rehabilitation of bonded labour in seven states.  The Bonded Labour Act and Rules do not provide clear directions to the...

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Budgeting for School Education: What Has Changed and What Has Not?

CBGA

• 31 July 2018
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The study presents an analysis of school education budgets of six states viz. Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, in the 14th Finance Commission period. It...

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Taking Stock - State Budget Priorities (2015-16 to 2017-18)

CBGA

• 2 May 2018
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The report attempts to look into the budget priorities of select States for social and other sectors, post the changes introduced due to the 14th Finance Commission (FC) recommendations. To this end,...

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