Tag Search: “political economy”
Election by community consensus: Effects on political selection and governance
Multiple states in India incentivise village communities to elect their political representatives by community consensus, doing away with the need for state governments to organise official secret bal...
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Ashna Arora
21 May, 2018
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Labour market effects of workfare programmes: Evidence from MNREGA
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MNREGA), the world’s largest workfare programme, provided employment to 51 million households in 2016. Assessing the impact of MNREGA on the...
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Clément Imbert
27 April, 2018
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Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Karl Ove Moene
There is a view that upsurge in inequality due to globalisation is leading to rising appeal of political platforms that promote inward-looking policies. In this podcast, Parikshit Ghosh (Member of the...
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Parikshit Ghosh
Karl Ove Moene
23 April, 2018
- Podcasts
Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity
Debates surrounding abortion invoke both religion and politics. This column examines whether the religious identity of legislators influences abortion rates in the districts in which they are elected,...
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Irma Clots-Figueras
Sonia Bhalotra
Lakshmi Iyer
09 April, 2018
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Why governments across the globe are cracking down on civic organisations
Dupuy, Ron and Prakash content that NGOs need to generate resources from the communities they serve. This will make them accountable to these communities and enhance their legitimacy, and incentivise ...
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Kendra Dupuy
Aseem Prakash
James Ron
21 December, 2017
- Perspectives
India's slum leaders - II
The second part of the two-part column on slum leaders discusses who these leaders are - their age, professions, and relationships with political parties - and how they build support within their com...
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Adam Auerbach
Tariq Thachil
21 November, 2017
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Breaking the clientelist trap: Can reform create demand for good governance in Bihar?
How has over a decade of rapid and programmatic policy reform in Bihar affected voters? Based on a household survey comparing political attitudes of residents on either side of the Bihar-Jharkhand bor...
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Jonathan Phillips
14 November, 2017
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Political Change and Crime Reduction in Bihar
The aim of this project was to understand the mechanisms through which the political changes in 2005 contributed to the dramatic subsequent reduction in violent crimes. This project is an extension of...
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Oliver Eynde
Clément Imbert
Nishith Prakash
12 October, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Political decentralisation, female leadership, and health in rural Bihar
Political decentralisation and female representation in governance are known to improve social welfare by influencing policy decisions in favour of women and children. Analysing data from rural Bihar,...
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Santosh Kumar
Nishith Prakash
23 August, 2017
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Governance and public service delivery in India
The International Growth Centre recently produced a synthesis paper (Afridi 2017) bringing together insights from its research on governance and public service delivery in India, over the past seven y...
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Farzana Afridi
Nalini Gulati
07 August, 2017
- Perspectives
The economic and political consequences of India's demonetisation
The ruling party at the centre won the Uttar Pradesh state election despite its demonetisation policy having some negative economic impacts on the Indian economy. By combining primary data from survey...
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Abhijit Banerjee
Namrata Kala
26 July, 2017
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Does political background of leaders matter for development?
The objective of this paper is to investigate whether a legislator's political background matters for development/provision of public goods. This project studies this issue at the sub-national level i...
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Aaditya Dar
25 July, 2017
- IGC Research on India