— Joint Forest Management (JFM) has succeeded in halting forest degradation in India, but its poverty reduction objective has not fully been evaluated previously. This paper compares JFM forests and government-managed forests to assess their respective net social benefits to different groups of local villagers. It shows that the JFM regime reflects the social preference of the rural nonpoor, an...

Policymakers now have four decades’ experience using marketization to address cost and quality problems in public-sector health services. While much is known about the challenges, it difficult draw lessons because there remains no agreed-upon definition of marketization. This article contributes a that focuses on transaction, particularly effects funding arrangements intensity competition among...

Dioscorea species or commonly named as yam is reported to be one of the major food sources worldwide. This ethnobotanical study was conducted to document local knowledge and potentials of DioscoreahispidaDennst. and to investigate and record its distribution in three districts of Terengganu. Information was gathered from 23 villagers from three districts of Besut, Marang and Setiu by using semi...