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The Challenge of Governance of India Today

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This paper attempts to delineate the possible role of goverance oriented reform in India today. We raise conceptual and historical difficulties with the notion that sees governance failure as the cause of poor economic performance. We discuss why there are certain regularities in the occurance of good governance, distinguishing the same from functional governance which aids and abets industrialisation. Next we go on to discuss the interlikages between institutions, economic development and governance in India, and why internal attempts at reform thus far have failed.. Finally we bring out the current failures in governance that are actionable and suggest that they are largely corrected by changes in economic policy and some intitutional initiatives. Attention to governance as such is warranted only to build organisations and initiatives for commercialisation and privatisation, and for appropriate changes in the law and in the development of frameworks for regulation and contracting out.

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  • Morris, Sebastian, 2001. "The Challenge of Governance of India Today," IIMA Working Papers WP2001-10-01, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
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    1. Morris, Sebastian, 1997. "Why Not Push for 9% Growth?," IIMA Working Papers WP1997-04-01_01440, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
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    1. Kulshreshtha, Praveen, 2007. "An efficiency and welfare classification of rationing by waiting in the presence of bribery," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 83(2), pages 530-548, July.
    2. Keren Priyadarshini & Omprakash K. Gupta, 2003. "Compliance to Environmental Regulations: The Indian Context," International Journal of Business and Economics, School of Management Development, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, vol. 2(1), pages 9-26, April.
    3. Morris, Sebastian, 2014. "Issues in Water Rights, Institutional Design and Pricing that Need Resolution," IIMA Working Papers WP2014-10-03, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.

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