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Analysing social opposition to reforms : the electricity sector in India
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ISBN: 9352801598 1281963844 9786611963842 8132100492 9788132100492 9788178298580 8178298589 Year: 2008 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications,

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This book examines how market contexts shape the opposition of people to public. sector reforms, with evidence from the Indian electricity sector. Based on a survey. of 7,000 households in 14 Indian states and following a rational choice framework,. it analyses the response of households to the prospect of privatization of electricity. utilities. Analysing Social Opposition to Reforms: The Electricity Sector in India. discusses the possibility of compensating losers and sequencing reform strategies. It uses empirical evidence from the Indian electricity sector to suggest that. much of the oppo


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The roots of ill-governance and corruption
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ISBN: 9351504751 9351501981 9789351501985 9789351500599 9351500594 1322588643 935388036X Year: 2015 Publisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications,

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This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the motivation behind corruption and ill-governance in countries, such as India. It presents a sound theoretical structure outlining the journey through various phases of elitism, counter-elitism, competitive populism, and, finally, good governance.The political willingness to bring in good governance, the book argues, depends on the electoral importance of the middle classes. Ironically, however, such a middle class emerges out of the policies of distributing private goods, including education, facilitated through counter-elite capture and comp


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Economic analysis of institutions : a practical guide
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ISBN: 8132119436 1283422301 9786613422309 8132109139 Year: 2011 Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE,

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Economic Analysis of Institutions provides a case studies-based tool kit to help readers analyze institutional changes, reforms and efforts to improve governance in the nation. The author applies the concepts of new institutional economics to a number of real-world problems and public policy issues relevant for developing economies. Divided into two parts, the book provides a succinct summary of the relevant theoretical insights of new institutional economics in the first, and application of these insights to eight specific issues in the second. These issues cover a wide range of areas includi


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Economics in action : an easy guide for development practitioners
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ISBN: 8132118049 8132116526 9788132116523 9788132111245 8132111249 Year: 2013 Publisher: Los Angeles, [California] : SAGE,

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Economics in Action summarizes the insights of economics (microeconomics, development economics, and institutional economics) for development practitioners who work in governmental and non-governmental organizations and civil society activists who do not have formal training in economics.

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