02783oam 22006495 450 991078358480332120200520144314.01-280-50356-497866105035680-8213-6681-510.1596/978-0-8213-6680-6(CKB)1000000000225238(EBL)459560(OCoLC)70705624(SSID)ssj0000085715(PQKBManifestationID)11998257(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085715(PQKBWorkID)10025515(PQKB)10680625(MiAaPQ)EBC459560(Au-PeEL)EBL459560(CaPaEBR)ebr10130754(CaONFJC)MIL50356(The World Bank)ocm69594106(US-djbf)14388306(EXLCZ)99100000000022523820060524d2006 uf 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCan good economics ever be good politics? : case study of the power sector in India /Sumir LalWashington, D.C. :World Bank,c2006.v, 26 pages ;26 cmWorld Bank working paper ;no. 83Description based upon print version of record.0-8213-6680-7 Includes bibliographical references.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; ReferencesIn 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 poWorld Bank e-Library.Energy policyIndiaEnergy industriesDeregulationIndiaEnergy policyEnergy industriesDeregulation333.793/20954Lal Sumir1961-1494742DLCDLCBAKERC#PDLCBOOK9910783584803321Can good economics ever be good politics?3718459UNINA