Here is this week’s reading list. Hope you enjoy reading the articles and watching the videos!

• Improving governance through Budget Transparency: Twenty years ago hardly any organizations focused on budget transparency as a key to improving democratic accountability and improving outcomes for poor. Now, over 200 groups in at least 119 countries engage in such work. An interesting Huffington post which talks about improving governance through budget transparency.
• A report on State Budgets Transparency by CBGA. As the report says, the total expenditure incurred from the State Budgets accounts for more than half of the Total Public Expenditure in the country. That’s quite a strong case for State Budget Transparency!
• School autonomy and accountability go together – A very interesting World Bank blog which makes the case for school autonomy
• An interesting blog by Diane Spears from Rice Institute on whether India’s Total Sanitation Campaign improving Children’s health?
• How do we combat obesity? According to Dan Ariely, giving nutritional information alone to people has not helped people make better choices. An interesting research by him gives an alternative.
• The loo that saves lives in Liberia – The title says it all
• An old article on how we need a wikipedia for data. The discussion on HackerNews on this article is most interesting.
• A Delloite report on “Unlocking Growth – How open data creates new opportunities for the UK”
• Project updates on Wipro’s “Applying thought in schools” initiative.
• An interesting article by Ajay Shah on the Joint Entrance Examination for IIT’s and the economics behind it.