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Reaching the unreached? Good governance and welfare reform politics in Delhi, India

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  • Richa Dhanju
  • Kathleen O'Reilly

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Good governance scholarship has been preoccupied with the donor-driven conditionalities imposed on aid-receiving developing countries. Limited attention has been given to power struggles and resistance from government actors (bureaucrats and politicians) to embrace internally driven good governance programmes. To address this gap, this article ethnographically examines a good governance initiative of the Delhi government (India) to reform its welfare system in partnership with NGOs. The study indicates that the conflict between government and non-governmental actors over the authority to govern the poor eventually maintained the status quo of the welfare system while the poor remain marginalised.

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  • Richa Dhanju & Kathleen O'Reilly, 2015. "Reaching the unreached? Good governance and welfare reform politics in Delhi, India," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(6), pages 815-831, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:25:y:2015:i:6:p:815-831
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2015.1063588
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