What are we reading?

accountability

3 February 2012

Here is this week’s reading list. Hope you enjoy!

Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food speaking about why we need to unite food movements.
Karthik Muralidharan on the challenges and opportunities for Achieving Quality Universal Primary Education in India
Report of the High Level Expert Committee on Efficient Management of Public Expenditure (Rangarajan Committee report)
Rukmini Banerji on NDTV speaking on the topic of “Sarkari Schools: Padhna Hai Bhool?“
Second Administrative Reforms Commission first report on “Right to Information: Master Key to Good Governance“
Putting Government Data online by Tim Berners Lee: Introduces the idea of linked data and answers very briefly the question of “If you want to put government data online, what should you do”
More unequal than others by Pranab Bardhan : He creates holes in the argument that everyone has an equal chance in a democracy when in fact there are a number of invisible factors that make sure the rich perform better.
School Choice – videos – A collection of really interesting videos on education

News articles not covered on our Facebook page.

Guardian article: Sierra Leone launches online mining database to increase transparency

Books

Understanding Poverty : This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field of economics, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty.

Thanks to Yamini, Indrojit, Gayatri, Avani, Anirvan, Shailey, Poonam. If you are reading something interesting, submit it in the comments below.