Outsourcing the State? Public-Private Partnerships and Information Technologies in India

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1663-1673

  Kuriyan, Renee ^a   Ray, Isha ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; developmental state; Governance; India; information technologies; public private partnerships

Indexed keywords

CALL CENTER; CIVIL SOCIETY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OUTSOURCING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PUBLIC SPACE; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SOCIAL STATUS; STATE LED DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 69349101580     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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