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What prompts collective action for accountability?
What prompts collective action for accountability? Information campaigns are premised on the assumption that information can act as a catalyst for mobilizing collective action. Yet, experience suggests that these links are neither implicit nor automatic. For instance, a recent evaluation by J-PAL MIT, of an information based education intervention to mobilize village education committees in … Continue reading "What prompts collective action for accountability?"
Linking outlays to outcomes in Education
By 2009, India has succeeded in enrolling 95% of all children in the elementary school going age into school. This is an impressive achievement. Thanks to a decent rate of growth and political commitment to address poverty, overall expenditures on programs like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan have been increasing. There is today a government primary school … Continue reading "Linking outlays to outcomes in Education"
Case Studies in Accountability: The Kerala Ombudsman
The Case Studies in Accountability Series documents innovative accountability experiments being undertaken in the country. The first case study in this series documents the office of the Kerala Ombudsman, the only Ombudsman’s office of its kind in India that considers complaints against local governments. In 2001, Kerala became the first, and only State in India, … Continue reading "Case Studies in Accountability: The Kerala Ombudsman"
Do information campaigns result in greater collective action? Lessons from experience on the ground.
This blog post is the first of a series based on experiences my colleagues and I had while implementing an information campaign on school expenditures aimed at mobilizing Parent Teacher Associations in a small cluster of villages in Sehore District, Madhya Pradesh (MP). The experience reinforced some of the fundamental contradictions in current systems of … Continue reading "Do information campaigns result in greater collective action? Lessons from experience on the ground."
India and the Failed States Index: 12 Counts of Failure
Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace have been publishing the Failed States Index since 2005. The 2010 Index uses 90,000 publicly available sources to assess 177 countries and rate them on 12 metrics of state decay—India ranked 87 and received a score of 77.8. Higher scores on a metric indicate a greater degree of … Continue reading "India and the Failed States Index: 12 Counts of Failure"