Social sector in a decentralized economy : India in the era of globalisation /
""Provides critical insights into the effectiveness of public expenditure through benefit incidence analysis of education and healthcare services in India"--Provided by publisher"--
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Delhi, India :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Social Sector in a Decentralized Economy; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, Boxes, Appendices; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Unpacking Decentralization; Decentralization: From theory to process; Voice and exit; Elite capture; Asymmetric federalism and intergovernmental competition; Asymmetric information; Accountability framework of decentralized service delivery; Five facets of accountability framework of decentralized service delivery; Three pillars of accountability in service provisioning; Decentralization and accountability link; Partial decentralization.
- 2. Decentralization in Service Delivery: Empirical EvidencesDegree of decentralization; Empirical evidences: Decentralization in service delivery; De facto versus de jure decentralization; 3. Decentralization in India: History, Laws and Politics; Historical background and political motivation of decentralization in India; The First Five Year Plan; The Second Five Year Plan; The Third, Fourth and Fifth Five Year Plans; The Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Five Year Plans and the Annual Plans, 1989-1991; The Ninth Five Year Plan; Decentralized mechanisms of health and education service delivery.
- Legal status of decentralization in IndiaConstitutional reform in education and health service delivery in India; What and how to decentralize: Enabling conditions; Appendix 3A.1; Appendix 3A.2; 4. Local-level Fiscal Decentralization: State Finance Commissions and Devolution; Interpreting the legal and fiscal fiats of SFC; Analyzing the selected SFCs of India; Karnataka SFCs recommendations; West Bengal SFCs recommendations; Critique of SFCs; Delay in constituting SFCs and consequent delays in report submission; Quality of SFC reports; Policy suggestions and way ahead.
- 5. Decentralization of EducationThe status of schooling in India; Quantitative expansion; Quality of education; Organization of education: Towards decentralized public management; Educational reforms at the state level: Two contrasting models; Research evidence on decentralization and education in India; 6. Decentralization in Health Service Delivery; Link between health spending and health sector outcome; What determines health outcome?; Interpreting selected state level health sector outcome; Health sector diagnosis: Issues and challenges.
- Decentralized health care system in India: Federal fiscal financing of health sectorConstitutional domain of health: Financial and functional assignments; Fiscal transfers in health; Health equalization grants; Effectiveness of decentralization on health sector delivery; Decentralizing health services: Cross-country evidence; Decentralizing health services: Recent empirical evidence from India; Locus of decision-making: Understanding a decentralized flagship programme on health in India; Locus of decentralized decision m: Link between PRIs and health care system.