Basic Social Services for All? Ensuring Accountability Through
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Significant changes in the global setting over the course of the last few decades resulted in an increasing prominence for the pursuit of transnational justice and individual accountability. The aftermath of the terrifying attacks on America on September 3. Making deep democratic decentralisation work • Moves towards democratic decentralisation in India • Elementary schools: Cake for the rich, fodder for the poor • Democratic decentralisation to realise schooling for all – the case of Madhya Pradesh • Schooling: The synergy of collective voice and state action in Rajasthan • Health: accountability to the community in Sub-Saharan Africa • The Right to Information – the steel-frame of deep democratic decentralisation
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