Avani and Vikram analyse the state of social sector spending in 2015 – 2016. Overall, it was found that social sector investments have in fact increased across all states, except Bihar.
Tag: Public Finance
Building an outcome-focused approach to elementary education financing in India
In this article, Yamini Aiyar, Director of the Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research, proposes a novel approach to governing public financing of elementary education that would give more flexibility to states over planning and budgeting, and incentivise them to work towards learning goals.
How PAISA Is Establishing Data Driven Accountability in the Education Sector
“Do Schools Get Their Money?” is one of the key questions which drives the PAISA (Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions: Studies in Accountability) project at Accountability Initiative
Deconstructing Union Budget 2015-16: what has changed?
The budget has left unanswered some critical questions about the future of key social sector schemes
How Will—Unprepared—States Handle A $29-Billion Budget Bonanza?
Mind the gap—and find the money to bridge it
How data can mislead in analysing social policy
India needs a transformation in how data is measured and analysed to form policy
Policy goes missing amid slogans
In villages where the number of households as per the baseline survey is less than the actual households, the toilet building exercise poses an allocation challenge: Who gets the limited number of toilets?
Sloganeering apart, one interpretation of this government’s approach to social policy is that it quite simply doesn’t want to have one