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Empowerment at Grass Roots

Vol. 37, Issue No. 38, 21 Sep, 2002
Mahi Pal

Capacity Building for Local Leaders by G Palanithurai; Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2001; pp 144, Rs 225.

Rural Development: Role of State

Vol. 37, Issue No. 29, 20 Jul, 2002
Suryakant Waghmore

How successful have government interventions been in fostering rural development by encouraging people's participation and NGO activity? A first step in sustained rural development lies in ending the historical deprivation of communities and peoples long marginalised.

Bold Initiatives Needed on Agriculture and Rural Employment

Vol. 37, Issue No. 12, 23 Mar, 2002
S Mahendra Dev

The specific proposals of Budget 2002-03 for agriculture and rural development do not live up to expectations. There is need for bold initiatives on public investment, credit and creating incentives for private investment to revive agricultural growth and expansion of rural employment.

Social Sector Expenditures in the 1990s

Vol. 37, Issue No. 09, 02 Mar, 2002
Jos Mooij, S Mahendra Dev

This paper focuses on social sector expenditure in the 1990s, and looks at several aspects, including overall levels of allocation, expenditure on health and education and interstate disparities. India's social sector expenditure in the 1990s was lower than that in the 1980s and also less than that of most other developing countries. With India ranking 115th in the Human Development Index, there is an obvious need to step up social sector expenditure and improve fund utilisation.

Mainstreaming Participatory Watershed Development

Vol. 37, Issue No. 03, 19 Jan, 2002
John Kerr, Shashi L Kolavalli

Community participation is accepted widely as being necessary for sustainable development of watersheds. This study, based on a survey of 36 project villages in five states suggests that there is no shared understanding of the meaning of participation or the means of effectively operationalising it. The paper finds that organising communities to give them collective voice, giving them opportunities to make critical decisions on what the projects will do and making them share a portion of the costs are essential aspects of implementation processes to enhance community participation. A realistic strategy must also seek to change the capabilities and incentives of government bureaucracies themselves by creating situations in which it is in their best interest to work with communities.

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