Title: Grounding the state : poverty, inequality and the politics of governance in India's Panchayats

Authors: Johnson, Craig and Deshingkar, Priya and Start, Daniel

Place: London

Publisher: Overseas development institute (ODI)

Year: 2003

Journal: Working paper / Overseas development institute (ODI)

Volume: 226

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: decentralization in government, poverty alleviation, local government, panchayat, governance, andhra pradesh, madhya pradesh, india

Abstract: This report shows that although the Government of Andhra Pradesh has not devolved power to the same extent, its populist approach to certain forms of poverty reduction has empowered the poor in ways that the more ambitious decentralization agenda in Madhya Pradesh has not.

URL: http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/wp226.pdf

Document type: Portal