Devolution meet a damp squib

Precious little achieved as states resist financial empowerment of panchayats

Richard Mahapatra

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31 Jul 2004, 12:00 am

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Rural Development

Anti-Poverty Programmes

PricewaterhouseCoopers report

Oxford Economics

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