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This report traces the development of the regional economy and the provision of services by the government and the private sector for both dry and irrigated tracts in a rural area of India. It is based on empirical evidence from Miryalguda, an administrative unit (taluka) of Andhra Pradesh. The taluka is situated in the command area of Nagajunasagar Irrigation Project (NSP) on the River Krishna. A part of the area, however, remains dry. Changes brought about by the irrigation project can be examined because data are available from a study of the same region conducted 10 years earlier. The study is divided into three sections: the policy and theory of service provision in rural India, the empirical evidence, and the policy implications of the findings.

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