"This volume focuses on successful innovations in public service delivery in India and draws lessons for scaling-up and replication. It documents and analyzes eight cases of innovation in service delivery across a range of sectors in India along with two additional papers on str…
India and other countries chose a decentralised mode of delivering public services through elected local governments for increasing public welfare. However, great expectations of effective services, increased accountability and people's participation were widely belied in practi…
"Public services, especially in urban areas, are a pressing concern. Following India's landmark constitutional amendment in 1992-93, it was expected that local governments would be more able, responsive and accountable, and public service delivery more effective. Both scholarly …
"Public services, especially in urban areas, are a pressing concern. Following India's landmark constitutional amendment in 1992-93, it was expected that local governments would be more able, responsive and accountable, and public service delivery more effective. Both scholarly …
"Form-Based Codes are the latest evolutionary step in the practice of development and land-use regulation. A growing alternative to conventional zoning laws, Form-Based Codes go beyond land use to address not just the physical form of buildings but also surrounding streets, bloc…
Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.
Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc. are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentall…
Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc. are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentall…
