On the Allocation of Public Goods to Villages in India
Published By: Asia Resaerch Centre (ARC) - London School of Econ | Published Date: January, 01 , 2003The paper tries to analyse the effect of religious composition on the provision of public services captured mainly by infrastructure index, of four types, (i) basic amenities such as water, housing and sanitation. (ii) Education (iii) health and (iv) development factors, from a sample of over 1700 villages from a survey done in 1993 in 16 major states of india. It is found that mixed villages in terms of religious composition have a higher composite infrastructure index in contrast to the more homogeneous ones.
Author(s): Santanu Gupta | Posted on: Mar 09, 2016 | Views() | Download (179)