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Recommendations on the Draft National Education Policy
About Accountability Initiative’s work on public school education Accountability Initiative is a research group which has worked on school education extensively. We have studied budgeting and planning for elementary and secondary education, education financing, teacher motivation, student-teacher interaction, school culture, and school relation with the education bureaucracy. Recommendations on the draft National Education Policy (NEP) … Continue reading "Recommendations on the Draft National Education Policy"
6 Things You Should know about India’s Quarterly Slowdown
India is considered a regional superpower in South Asia with its considerable natural resources and an enormous domestic consumer market. India’s GDP growth rate has been impressive throughout the 2000s but has suffered a decline since the early 2010s. Nevertheless, it maintained an impressive rate of growth among developing countries. Since then, the rates of … Continue reading "6 Things You Should know about India’s Quarterly Slowdown"
How the Lack of Information Can Affect Health Insurance Schemes
The roll-out of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) has been a frenetic affair (over 4 crore e-cards issued in less than 10 months). PMJAY is a massive health insurance scheme which aims to protect poor and deprived families from catastrophic expenditure arising out of health shocks by providing up to ₹5 lakh as … Continue reading "How the Lack of Information Can Affect Health Insurance Schemes"
Types of Corruption in the Health Sector
As with most other sectors, corruption in the health sector can be classified into two categories, petty corruption and grand corruption. In addition, there could be another category, namely, the widespread prevalence of unethical and abusive practices. Each is described below. Petty corruption refers to relatively small amounts paid in order to get services that … Continue reading "Types of Corruption in the Health Sector"
Learning and Development Intern
Accountability Initiative (AI) at the Centre for Policy Research is seeking to hire a Learning and Development intern to assist its capacity building, and knowledge management work. The L&D intern will help to createlearning material for the English course ‘Understanding State Capabilities’. Our research on local bureaucracy in India has led us to believe that … Continue reading "Learning and Development Intern"