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Author: Sebastian Morris Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Provides the Overview to the Report and reviews each of the chapters in the report. The theme of governance in India in the context of commercialisation of infrastructure is introduced and issues raised by the various papers are linked together to present an agenda for reform.
Author: Sebastian Morris Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Provides the Overview to the Report and reviews each of the chapters in the report. The theme of governance in India in the context of commercialisation of infrastructure is introduced and issues raised by the various papers are linked together to present an agenda for reform.
Author: Sebastian Morris Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 382
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This report, the second in a series, provides rich and detailed statistics of infrastructure governance, focusing on why Indian is making so little progress.
Author: Idfc Foundation Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134952651 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 545
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Today, India’s education sector remains a victim of poor policies, restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools, children are not learning adequately. Increasingly, parents are seeking alternatives through private inputs in school and tuition. Students are dropping out from secondary school in spite of high financial returns of secondary education, and those who do complete it have inferior conceptual knowledge. Higher education is over-regulated and under-governed, keeping away serious private providers and reputed global institutes. Graduates from high schools, colleges and universities are not readily employable, and few are willing to pay for skill development. Ironically, the Right to Education Act, if strictly enforced, will result in closure of thousands of non-state schools, and millions of poor children will be left without access to education. Eleventh in the series, India Infrastructure Report 2012 discusses challenges in the education sector — elementary, secondary, higher, and vocational — and explores strategies for constructive change and opportunities for the private sector. It suggests that immediate steps are required to reform the sector to reap the benefits from India’s ‘demographic dividend’ due to a rise in the working age population. Result of a collective effort led by the IDFC Foundation, this Report brings together a range of perspectives from academics, researchers and practitioners committed to enhancing educational practices. It will be an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers and corporates.
Author: 3iNetwork (India) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
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This report focuses on regulation and industry structure and spells out an agenda of reform and privatization to improve the infrastructure's effectiveness, targetting, and efficiency.
Author: Sandipan Deb Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 9780788126352 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 60
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Produced by the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi. Provides an overview of the need for improvement of the infrastructure in India and makes recommendations for achieving this goal. Discusses the question of commercialization, investments required (1996-2006), the role of the capital market, necessary regulatory frameworks, and fiscal issues. Examines the urban infrastructure as well as other elements such as power, telecommunications, roads, industrial parks and ports. Includes a table of abbreviations and acronyms used in the report.
Author: Sebastian Morris Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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IIR 2002 focuses on one of the most fundamental building blocks of a reform agenda, namely, governance frameworks for commercialization. It was in December 2000 that we first mooted the subject of governance for this issue of the IIR. Subsequent developments, such as the Enron saga, the Orissa power sector reforms, delays in the introduction of the Convergence Bill, and the CNG vehicle programme in Delhi, against the backdrop of further deteriorating infrastructure services, all played a role in forcefully proving the point we had been trying to make all along - good infrastructure needs good governance. Governance should encompass the creation, protection and enforcement of certain basic rights such as rights to land, clean air, information, and to earn a livelihood. Our approach to these rights defines the framework in which our societies operate and the extent to which we can tolerate inequities and unbalanced growth of opportunities. Thus, it has implications both for welfare considerations within a country as well as at the international level. The inability to solve the problems of dispossessed peoples around the world lies at the root of international terrorism. The right to good governance in terms of policies to promote 'public good' arises precisely from these foundations. We ignore these fundamental issues at our own peril. What we are witnessing in India is the failure of the government to re-invent itself to meet the changing realities of our times. It was amply evident the world over that an omnipresent government attempting to do everything from maintaining law and order to providing goods and services to people, is not feasible. The business of the government is to provide good governance at least cost. This cost is the yardstick of success. The citizen comes first in any governance framework. In India, we saw the government provide services, but this came with enormous wastage of resources, deteriorating service quality, an inability to invest in improvements and safety standards, high and rising subsidies, large and unfounded pension liabilities for employees of the system, massive cost and time overruns of crucial projects, and, above all, an inability to reform encrusted institutional mechanisms that oversee this juggernaut. Many of these symptoms are illustrated in government owned and operated infrastructure services in the past such as railways, airlines, hotel and tourism services, road building and maintenance, hospitals, and education. Clearly we need a new paradigm that will gradually dismantle what we have built since independence and replace it with an enabling environment which encourages private participation. The answer to many of our problems lies in public-private partnerships that use available resources effectively. Defining these partnerships in a manner which can be operationalized, is the challenge for the coming decade. IDFC is working on this paradigm, using UK's Private Financing Initiative, which has enormous implications for India: privatize where possible (where commercialization possibilities exist and users of services are in a position to cover the full cost of its provision); and where this is not possible and where the government retains its accountability, to tax payers for service provision (such as education, health services, national savings, and defence), use private financing and management of services with governments paying the final bill and thereby reaping huge efficiency gains. There are many possibilities that can bridge the transition from where we are to where we wish to go. It is not the choice of means that poses a problem, as the clarity in determining the ends and setting-up objectives to be attained. This can only be done through good governance mechanisms. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. The challenge for India is to decide in which direction we wish to head. This report fulfils a gap in our understanding of governance issues for successful commercialization of infrastructure services.
Author: National Council of Applied Economic Research Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761935766 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 156
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Based on primary data collected through a nationwide survey, the report aims to resolve some of the contradictions that have stymied the expansion of infrastructure in rural India with the aim of encouraging balanced regional growth of rural infrastructure. It proposes - Forming public-private partnerships - Greater decentralisation of regulation and ownership - Greater reliance on user fees to recover costs - Greater use of microfinance This is a definitive report on the state of rural infrastructure in the four major sectors of power, telecommunications, roads and transport, and water and sanitation. Given that the solutions to rural infrastructure problems are necessarily going to be unique in rural areas, where people are already underserved, this study focusing on rural infrastructure is valuable in that it advocates for new financing methods; attracting new players to provide services; adopting new policies to support privatisation and decentralisation of infrastructure services. In sum, it outlines a financially sustainable and inventive new approach.
Author: Sebastian Morris
Author: Sebastian Morris
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Author: Idfc Foundation
Author: 3iNetwork (India)
Author: Sandipan Deb
Author: Sebastian Morris
Author: Sandipan Deb
Author: National Council of Applied Economic Research