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Lal Sumir <1961-> |
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Can good economics ever be good politics? : : case study of the power sector in India / / Sumir Lal |
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Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2006 |
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1-280-50356-4 |
9786610503568 |
0-8213-6681-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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World Bank working paper ; ; no. 83 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Energy policy - India |
Energy industries - Deregulation - India |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Power Reform in India: Issues, erceptions, and Players; Politics in India: Form and Substance; The Politics of Reform: Style and Strategy; Prospects for the Power Sector; Conclusions and Lessons Going Forward; References |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In recent years, the power sector in several developing countries has suffered from a frustrating gap between strong, pro-reform rhetoric at the political level, and weak, hesitant implementation of the reform measures on the ground. Focusing on the recent experience of power sector reform in India, this paper looks afresh at the problem of the "rhetoric-implementation gap" by taking the lack of political will as its starting point, and identifying the ingredients that comprise it in the current context of India. Assuming that people and institutions are not impartial but instead respond to po |
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