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Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas. Despite this consensus, 'good governance' is an extremely elusive objective: it means different things to different organizations and to different actors within these...
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India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and …
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The paper discusses views on China and India as country role models. In so doing the article recounts the economic and …
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stature. Using data from lab-in-the-field experiments in rural India with local politicians and non-politician participants …
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participants in rural India. In our game, a recipient citizen does not know whether dictator politician capture or bad luck is to …
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India today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also … project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts …
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I describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime. I investigate the effect of shifts in legal authorities' surveillance by focusing on junkyards, firms often associated with illegal markets and auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities...
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This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from … China's shift in focus from 'quantity' to 'quality', and evidencebased guidelines for effective implementation of India … Curriculum Reform 20 years before India's NEP 2020 has put China on the path to achieving equitable development of 'quality …
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We investigate whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in children's education in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and … groups in India, Peru, and Viet Nam is the difference in endowments (i.e. characteristics of children and their families …
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India. …
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