Harsh Vardhan Pachisia and Sharmadha Srinivasan argue that technology is not a silver bullet for governance. Technical solutions must be supplemented with structural improvements to ensure effective delivery of public services.
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"The...
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Figure 1: Timeline of Kerala's responses over 100-day period
Kerala registered India’s first COVID-19 case on 30 January. Over ...
The Liberian handshake is elaborate. It starts with a regular handshake, followed by gripping, finger snapping and fist-pumping. In 2016, as Ebola gripped the nation, this handshake nearly went extinct. India’s namaste may give us some fleeting comfort in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, ...
In this article, Shruti Rajagopalan, Fellow, Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law writes about the importance of freeing up state capacity to improve efficiency in government in Mint.
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"Almost all of India’s governance problems ca...
This Bloomberg Quint article follows the work of the Behavioural Insights Team, founded by the U.K. government in 2010.
"The Team uses behavioural science to make public policies and services more effective. Among its more successful experiments is the use of peer pressure to imp...
This Livemint article gives reasons in support of the idea that "In a 21st century economy, a quarter century after liberalisation ... the need for specialised skills and knowledge to inform policy-making and administration is more important than ever."
"...the civil services as they exist ...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Fellow at the IDFC institute was invited to a meeting of experts, held by the Prime Minister, to map out the future economic plan.
"The meeting was also attended by the finance minister Arun Jaitley, all his department secretaries, other secretaries of departmen...
