Decentralization in India: Outcomes and Opportunities

Kaliappa Kalirajan () and Keijiro Otsuka ()

ASARC Working Papers from The Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre

Abstract: Though the literature on federalism explains the economic gains from decentralised decision making and related issues in India, there are very few empirical studies examining the causal relationship between decentralisation and development outcomes. Much of the demonstrated gains are in the nature of assertions or qualitative statements. This study, attempts to analyse and quantify the impact of decentralisation in India on its social infrastructure that needs to be supplied by governments as they are not optimally provided by the private sector and on rural development where about 70% of the population live.

Keywords: Fiscal Decentralization; rural development; social infrastructure; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H30 H51 H52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19
Date: 2010
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