Policy Response, Local Service Delivery, and Governance in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

Ishtiaq Jamil, Professor, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway.Tek Nath Dhakal, Professor, Central Department of Public Administration, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.Sk Tawfique M Haque, Professor and Director, South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG),North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.Laxmi Kanta Paudel, Lecturer, Central Department of Public Administration,Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.Hasan Muhammad Baniamin, Assistant Professor, South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Understanding Governance in Three South Asian Countries.- Chapter 2. Lower Institutional Performance but Higher Institutional (Dis)Trust in South Asia: A Piece of Puzzle.- Chapter 3. Women’s Micro-Entrepreneurship: Can It Lead to Sustainable Empowerment in Nepal?.- Chapter 4. Governance of Agricultural Service Delivery at the Grassroots Level in Nepal.- Chapter 5. Policy Advocacy for Foreign Direct Investment: A Study of the Board of Investment of Bangladesh.- Chapter 6. An Analysis of the Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Implementing the National Labor Migration Policy in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 7. The Nexus between Citizenship Rights, Quality of Government, and Public Services: Evidence from Sri Lanka.- Chapter 8. The Citizen’s Charter in Nepal: An Effort to Achieve Quality of Governance at the Local Level.- Chapter 9. Process-Based Performance Framework for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Policy Implementation in Bangladesh.- chapter 10. Patient-Doctor Trust Relationship at Local Health Care in Rural Bangladesh.