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Irfan Nooruddin
Irfan Nooruddin is the Hamad bin Khalifa Professor of Indian Politics and the Faculty Chair of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He directs the Georgetown University India Initiative, a university-wide initiative that advances research and teaching around India and its role in world affairs, and creates a platform for high-level dialogue among American and Indian leaders from government, business, civil society, and the academy.
He is the author of Elections in Hard Times: Building Stronger Democracies in the 21st Century (with T.E. Flores, Cambridge, 2016) and Coalition Politics and Economic Development: Credibility and the Strength of Weak Governments (Cambridge, 2011). Dr. Nooruddin specialises in the study of comparative economic development and policymaking, democratisation and democratic institutions, and international institutions. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and is a Team Member with Lokniti: Programme on Comparative Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. More information is available at www.irfannooruddin.org.
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What do poor people think about direct cash transfers?
Based on a survey conducted over November-December 2018 with 3,800 respondents in rural Bihar, Khemani, Habyarimana, and Nooruddin present descriptive evidence on what the poor citizens of India think about spending public budgets on direct cash transfers rather than on other welfare programmes.
