Policies Without Politics: Analysing Nutrition Governance in India
Published by: IDS
This report seeks to understand why, despite many of the right ingredients, has India not had greater success with reducing the malnutrition of its children?
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Published by: IDS
This report seeks to understand why, despite many of the right ingredients, has India not had greater success with reducing the malnutrition of its children?
The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research has commissioned an innovative, applied, methods course for the region's mid-career faculty engaged in research on governance and social policy.
The project examines what factors enable governments to commit to national nutrition strategies and deliver appropriate nutrition policies in the long run.
Published by: Sage Publications
The volume suggests that many of the social and political processes at work need to be understood simultaneously from both supra- and subnational perspectives.
Published by: Oxford University Press
Pakistan’s Local Government Ordinance (LGO 2001) has strengthened electoral decentralization and expenditure devolution and there is reason to believe that the design features of the reform would reduce spatial and social inequality by reducing gaps in provision between villages within a union council, and between social and income groups within a village.
Published by: Asian Development Bank
This paper provides an account of social structures in rural Pakistan with reference to qual- itative and quantitative data from seven villages spread across distinct sociocultural and agro-eco- nomic zones in the country. The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, it attempts to pro- vide a conceptual framework and empirical con- tent to explain societal patterns and social organi- zation in rural Pakistan.
Published by: IDS
Published by: IDS
Does the devolution of responsibility for service provision to elected local authorities improve the delivery of services to the poor? This is the major challenge of democratic decentralisation and a key benchmark for assessment. Many governments devolve power and resources to local bodies which assume responsibility for health, education and other essential services
Published by: Orient Longman
In a comparative study, Shandana Khan Mohmand examines Pakistan’s decentralization plan and finds that owing to some basic structural flaws in the plan, decetralisation in Pakistan though representative is not necessarily participatory.
Published by: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies