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Coordination and the poor maintenance trap : an experiment on public infrastructure in India

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella - 2021

Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and potential users, this paper provides one of the...

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Bureaucratic and societal determinants of female-led microenterprises in India

Devlina; Sahu, Santosh Kumar - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 13 (2023) 3, pp. 1-15

This study examines the barriers to female entrepreneurship in India's microenterprise sector through society and bureaucracy. The study uses grammatical genders in languages to capture the societal attitudes towards female entrepreneurship. Using a probit model, it was found that states where...

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Traveling Agents : Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

Iyer, Lakshmi; Mani, Anandi - 2009

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent...

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Making the Politician and the Bureaucrat Deliver : Employment Guarantee in India

Goyal, Ashima - 2005

The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits. There are still weaknesses in the incentive structure of the new nationwide EGS. First, there...

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The impacts of infrastructure in development : a selective survey

Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2015

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is...

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Information and facilitation interventions for accountability in health and nutrition : evidence from a randomized trial in India

Mohanan, Manoj; Rajan, Vikram S.; Swanson, Kendal M.; … - 2020

Community-based accountability interventions have shown potential to improve delivery of public services, but there is … study the effectiveness of social accountability interventions implemented by the Indian state government of Uttar Pradesh … randomized trial design, we investigate two key mechanisms through which accountability interventions are hypothesized to improve …

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