An untold story of policy failure: The Total Sanitation Campaign in India

Water Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1001-1017

  Hueso, Andrés ^a   Bell, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure; Implementation; India; Policy; Political economy; Rural; Sanitation; Total sanitation campaign

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894090721     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2013.032     Document Type: Article

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