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Pitfalls of participatory programs : evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Banerji, Rukmini; Duflo, Esther; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as key to improving their efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes community members, specifically locally elected leaders and parents of...

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Can information campaigns spark local participation and improve outcomes ? A study of primary education in Uttar Pradesh, India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Banerji, Rukmini; Duflo, Esther; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

There is a growing belief in development policy circles that participation by local communities in basic service delivery can promote development outcomes. A central plank of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the participation of village education committees...

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Buying votes vs. supplying public services : political incentives to under-invest in pro-poor policies

Khemani, Stuti - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This paper uses unique survey data to provide, for the first time in the literature, direct evidence that vote buying in poor economies is associated with lower provision of public services that disproportionately benefit the poor. Various features of the data and the institutional context allow...

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Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits

Keefer, Philip; Khemani, Stuti - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Citizens in developing countries support politicians who provide patronage or clientelist benefits, such as government jobs and gifts at the time of elections. Can access to mass media that broadcasts public interest messages shift citizens'preferences for such benefits? This paper examines the...

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Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits

Keefer, Philip; Khemani, Stuti - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

The government provision of free or subsidized bed nets to combat malaria in Benin allows the identification of new channels through which mass media affect public policy outcomes. Prior research has concluded that governments provide greater private benefits to better-informed individuals. This...

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Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor

Keefer, Philip; Khemani, Stuti - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Countries vary systematically with respect to the incentives of politicians to provide broad public goods, and to reduce poverty. Even in developing countries that are democracies, politicians often have incentives to divert resources to political rents, and to private transfers that benefit a...

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Political cycles in a developing economy - effect of elections in Indian States

Khemani, Stuti - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

The author studies the effect of state legislative assembly elections, on the policies of state governments in 14 major states of India, from 1960 to 1996. She identifies the effect of the timing of elections using an instrument for the electoral cycle that distinguishes between constitutionally...

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Political Capture of Decentralization : Vote-Buying Through Grants-Financed Local Jurisdictions

Khemani, Stuti - 2010

A recent trend in decentralization in several large and diverse countries is the creation of local jurisdictions below … both regional and national governments. This paper argues that such grants-financed decentralization enables politicians to … target benefits to pivotal voters and organized interest groups in exchange for political support. Decentralization, in this …

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Political capture of decentralization : vote buying through grants to local jurisdictions

Khemani, Stuti - In: Is decentralization good for development? : …, (pp. 196-223). 2015

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Political capture of decentralization : vote-buying through grants-financed local jurisdictions

Khemani, Stuti - 2010

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