Decentralization in Kerala: Panchayat government discretion and accountability

Public Administration and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 316-329

  Venugopal, Varsha ^a   Yilmaz, Serdar ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DECENTRALIZATION; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC SECTOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70349329355     PISSN: 02712075     EISSN: 1099162X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pad.541     Document Type: Article

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