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Apurva Bamezai is currently a senior researcher affiliated with Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include political economy of development in India, State capacity and institutions. Previously, she has worked as a researcher in Oxford Policy Management’s Poverty and Social Protection portfolio; IDinsight; and the Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute, New Delhi. She has significant experience in quantitative impact evaluations and process evaluations of programmes in social protection, maternal health, child nutrition, and early childhood education. Apurva holds a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, an M.A. in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and an M.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.