D Rajasekhar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 234442 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Rajasekhar |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Rajasekhar |
| ASSINATURA | RAJASEKHAR D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institute for Social and Economic Change |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9542-058X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Local Government and Natural Resource Management in Madhya Pradesh, India
This paper investigates the factors that influence the involvement of local government in natural resource management in a decentralized institutional context. Institutions, regulating resource use patterns and practices are indicated to be decisive for the success or failure of resource management initiatives, and decentralization is considered a promising institutional arrangement in this regard. In this context, it is significant that India ad…
Factors influencing citizen participation in Ward Committee meetings
Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India
Cellfare
This article proposes a new form of self-targeted social protection scheme: beneficiaries carry out a series of small tasks on their mobile phones, each linked to a small payment. Key advantages over traditional public works include potentially large reductions in leakage, costs, and delays. The proposed scheme may also be suitable to wider demographics as it does not require physical labour and can be availed from home. A prototype implementatio…
Do Women Council Members Allocate More Public Goods? Evidence from Rural India
Gender quotas are intended to address the underrepresentation of women in government. However, their effectiveness remains controversial. This study explores the random assignment of gender quotas across villages in India, examining whether women members of local councils affect public goods allocation in their constituencies and identifying potential challenges they face when implementing policies. We conducted a field survey in 100 villages, ea…
Who participates in vocational education and training in India? An analysis of socio-economic determinants
India’s expectation of a demographic dividend owing to an increase in the working age population necessitated government measures aimed at skilling youth. Considerable emphasis was therefore placed on skill development policies and programmes, including revamping formal vocational education and training (VET) institutions that provide skills to students completing secondary schooling and opting vocational training. Although the number of VET inst…
Pushing Welfare
Governments in many developing countries offer social welfare schemes that few take up or even know of. We undertake a randomized controlled evaluation of agents trained in the facilitation of 16 government social welfare schemes in south India. The agents were incentivized to seek out eligible households, provide them with information about the schemes, and help them apply. We find that the agents increase scheme awareness but not application su…
Cooperatives and Social Innovation
Decentralised Governance, Development Programmes and Elite Capture
Can public works increase equilibrium wages? Evidence from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee
Can Microfinance Promote Livelihoods and Reduce Vulnerability Among Adivasis? A Study of Some NGO Interventions from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
To what extent have NGO microfinance programmes for adivasi households promoted livelihoods and reduced poverty and vulnerability among them? This question is analysed with the help of primary data collected from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states. Although adivasi households have joined microfinance groups, made small savings and availed credit facility, microfinance activities have not significantly improved livelihoods and reduced vulnerability. …
Motivating Knowledge Agents
This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance \nin the dissemination of information. We analyse theoretically as well as \nempirically the e ect of incentive pay when agents have pro-social objectives, \nbut also preferences over dealing with one social group relative to \nanother. In a randomised eld experiment undertaken across 151 villages \nin South India, local agents were hired to spread information about a \npubli…
How Effective are Social Audits under MGNREGS? Lessons from Karnataka
This case study on social audits under MGNREGS in Karnataka aims to provide suggestions on how to improve the design and implementation of social audits in the state. With the help of the primary data collected from five grama panchayats in Chitradurga district, the paper argues that although the documentary evidence shows that social audits are conducted they do not fulfil the main objective of engaging the beneficiaries of the scheme and making…
P2-318 Long-term (5–10 yrs) results of balloon mitral commissurotomy for rheumatic mitral stenosis
Introduction Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) has been known as an effective therapeutic modality for moderate to severe mitral stenosis. However, long-term results and factors influencing late outcome after PTMC remain to be elucidated. Methods Retrospective study of symptomatic severe MS patients who underwent PTMC from 1994 to 1999 in our cardiology unit to evaluate the immediate and long term echocardiographic results of PTMC in 158 …
Credit Constraints and Distress Sales in Rural India
The literature on the rural credit market in India (and elsewhere) has generally assumed that peasant farm households are rationed in their access to subsidized formal credit. Because of a lack of infrastructure and poor access to institutional credit, such farmers are exploited by means of an interlocked market connecting informal credit to the sale of paddy. The resulting gap, between the sale by a borrower of paddy at a predetermined low price…
Famines and Peasant Mobility
Can public works increase equilibrium wages? Evidence from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee
Credit Constraints and Distress Sales in Rural India
The literature on the rural credit market in India (and elsewhere) has generally assumed that peasant farm households are rationed in their access to subsidized formal credit. Because of a lack of infrastructure and poor access to institutional credit, such farmers are exploited by means of an interlocked market connecting informal credit to the sale of paddy. The resulting gap, between the sale by a borrower of paddy at a predetermined low price…
Motivating Knowledge Agents
This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance \nin the dissemination of information. We analyse theoretically as well as \nempirically the e ect of incentive pay when agents have pro-social objectives, \nbut also preferences over dealing with one social group relative to \nanother. In a randomised eld experiment undertaken across 151 villages \nin South India, local agents were hired to spread information about a \npubli…
Famines and Peasant Mobility
Can Microfinance Promote Livelihoods and Reduce Vulnerability Among Adivasis? A Study of Some NGO Interventions from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
To what extent have NGO microfinance programmes for adivasi households promoted livelihoods and reduced poverty and vulnerability among them? This question is analysed with the help of primary data collected from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states. Although adivasi households have joined microfinance groups, made small savings and availed credit facility, microfinance activities have not significantly improved livelihoods and reduced vulnerability. …
Famines and Peasant Mobility
Credit Constraints and Distress Sales in Rural India
The literature on the rural credit market in India (and elsewhere) has generally assumed that peasant farm households are rationed in their access to subsidized formal credit. Because of a lack of infrastructure and poor access to institutional credit, such farmers are exploited by means of an interlocked market connecting informal credit to the sale of paddy. The resulting gap, between the sale by a borrower of paddy at a predetermined low price…
P2-318 Long-term (5–10 yrs) results of balloon mitral commissurotomy for rheumatic mitral stenosis
Introduction Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) has been known as an effective therapeutic modality for moderate to severe mitral stenosis. However, long-term results and factors influencing late outcome after PTMC remain to be elucidated. Methods Retrospective study of symptomatic severe MS patients who underwent PTMC from 1994 to 1999 in our cardiology unit to evaluate the immediate and long term echocardiographic results of PTMC in 158 …
How Effective are Social Audits under MGNREGS? Lessons from Karnataka
This case study on social audits under MGNREGS in Karnataka aims to provide suggestions on how to improve the design and implementation of social audits in the state. With the help of the primary data collected from five grama panchayats in Chitradurga district, the paper argues that although the documentary evidence shows that social audits are conducted they do not fulfil the main objective of engaging the beneficiaries of the scheme and making…
Can public works increase equilibrium wages? Evidence from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee
Can Microfinance Promote Livelihoods and Reduce Vulnerability Among Adivasis? A Study of Some NGO Interventions from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
To what extent have NGO microfinance programmes for adivasi households promoted livelihoods and reduced poverty and vulnerability among them? This question is analysed with the help of primary data collected from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states. Although adivasi households have joined microfinance groups, made small savings and availed credit facility, microfinance activities have not significantly improved livelihoods and reduced vulnerability. …
Motivating Knowledge Agents
This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance \nin the dissemination of information. We analyse theoretically as well as \nempirically the e ect of incentive pay when agents have pro-social objectives, \nbut also preferences over dealing with one social group relative to \nanother. In a randomised eld experiment undertaken across 151 villages \nin South India, local agents were hired to spread information about a \npubli…
Decentralised Governance, Development Programmes and Elite Capture
Cooperatives and Social Innovation
Pushing Welfare
Governments in many developing countries offer social welfare schemes that few take up or even know of. We undertake a randomized controlled evaluation of agents trained in the facilitation of 16 government social welfare schemes in south India. The agents were incentivized to seek out eligible households, provide them with information about the schemes, and help them apply. We find that the agents increase scheme awareness but not application su…
Who participates in vocational education and training in India? An analysis of socio-economic determinants
India’s expectation of a demographic dividend owing to an increase in the working age population necessitated government measures aimed at skilling youth. Considerable emphasis was therefore placed on skill development policies and programmes, including revamping formal vocational education and training (VET) institutions that provide skills to students completing secondary schooling and opting vocational training. Although the number of VET inst…
Cellfare
This article proposes a new form of self-targeted social protection scheme: beneficiaries carry out a series of small tasks on their mobile phones, each linked to a small payment. Key advantages over traditional public works include potentially large reductions in leakage, costs, and delays. The proposed scheme may also be suitable to wider demographics as it does not require physical labour and can be availed from home. A prototype implementatio…
Do Women Council Members Allocate More Public Goods? Evidence from Rural India
Gender quotas are intended to address the underrepresentation of women in government. However, their effectiveness remains controversial. This study explores the random assignment of gender quotas across villages in India, examining whether women members of local councils affect public goods allocation in their constituencies and identifying potential challenges they face when implementing policies. We conducted a field survey in 100 villages, ea…
Local Government and Natural Resource Management in Madhya Pradesh, India
This paper investigates the factors that influence the involvement of local government in natural resource management in a decentralized institutional context. Institutions, regulating resource use patterns and practices are indicated to be decisive for the success or failure of resource management initiatives, and decentralization is considered a promising institutional arrangement in this regard. In this context, it is significant that India ad…
Factors influencing citizen participation in Ward Committee meetings
Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India
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