Assam Governance and Public Resource Management Program

• Completion date जनवरी., 2004
• Sponsor Government of Assam
• Project leader M. Govinda Rao
• Other faculty R. Kavita Rao and P.R. Jena
• Focus

  The objective of the project is to help Government of Assam design reforms in the area of resource magement and governce and strengthen its capacity to implement them. Major areas of the project are fiscal reforms that include improvement in resource mobilisation, public expenditure magement reforms to strengthen fiscal discipline, debt magement, and budgetary reforms, and improvement in governce and public magement to introduce cost-effectiveness and sustaibility of reforms. Fiscal reforms are critical to accelerating growth, reducing poverty, and achieve the millennium development goals of human development and gender equity.