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  • Two Hundred and Fifty-Thousand Democracies : A Review of Village Government in India (anglais)

    In 1992, the 73rd Amendment to the Indian Constitution created 250,000 village democracies (called Gram Panchayats) covering 800 million citizens. It mandated regular elections, deliberative spaces, and...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10793 Date du document: 5 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: George,Siddharth,Rao,Vijayendra,Sharan,M. R.

  • Using Large Language Models for Qualitative Analysis can Introduce Serious Bias (anglais)

    Large Language Models (LLMs) are quickly becoming ubiquitous, but the implications for social science research are not yet well understood. This paper asks whether LLMs can help us analyse large-N qualitative...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10597 Date du document: 7 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ashwin,Julian,Chhabra,Aditya,Rao,Vijayendra

  • The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India (anglais)

    Governments across the world have increasingly devolved powers to locally elected leaders. This paper studies the consequences of local democracy, exploiting a natural experiment in Karnataka, India. Local...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10555 Date du document: 25 août 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arora,Abhishek,George,Siddharth,Rao,Vijayendra,Sharan,MR

  • Money versus Kudos : The Impact of Incentivizing Local Politicians in India (anglais)

    Despite growing awareness of the various limitations of electoral democracy, there is a relative lack of evidence on effective policy interventions to improve the performance of elected officials and motivate...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10186 Date du document: 19 septembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mansuri,Ghazala,Palaniswamy,Nethra,Rao,Vijayendra,Shrestha,Slesh Anand

  • Can Economics Become More Reflexive ? Exploring the Potential of Mixed-Methods (anglais)

    This paper argues that Economics can learn from Cultural Anthropology and Qualitative Sociology by drawing on a judicious mix of qualitative and quantitative methods to become more “reflexive.” It argues...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9918 Date du document: 28 janvier 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rao,Vijayendra

  • Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics (anglais)

    What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9133 Date du document: 30 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Artuc,Erhan,Cull,Robert J.,Dasgupta,Susmita,Fattal Jaef,Roberto N.,Filmer,Deon P.,Gine,Xavier,Jacoby,Hanan G.,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Kee,Hiau Looi,Klapper,Leora,Kraay,Aart C.,Loayza,Norman V.,Mckenzie,David J.,Ozler,Berk,Rao,Vijayendra,Rijkers,Bob,Schmukler,Sergio L.,Toman,Michael A.,Wagstaff, Adam,Woolcock,Michael

  • Development Digest : Approaching New Frontiers (anglais)

    The World Bank Group Global Knowledge and Research Hub in Malaysia is experiencing a year of transitions: firstly, moving into our next phase of operations, beginning July 1, 2020; and second, undergoing...

    Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 142982 Date du document: 1 octobre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Schmillen,Achim Daniel,Abdul Aziz,Ahmad Hafiz Bin,Brown,Deryck R.,Hussain,Farah Imrana,Raad,Firas,Moroz,Harry Edmund,Govindasamy,Jeevakumar,Simler,Kenneth,Warwick,Mara K.,Tan,Mei Ling,Lee,Min Hui,Bajpai,Rajni,Reddy,Rekha,Record,Richard James Lowden,Faiez,Shahridan,Devadas,Sharmila,Raja,Siddhartha,Pennings,Steven Michael,Rao,Vijayendra,Zhang,Wei - EEAF1

  • Improving Governance through Enhanced Citizen Engagement : The Case of Malaysia (anglais)

    Malaysia has focused on civil service reforms to improve the efficiency of public service delivery. This Research and Policy Brief argues that this method needs to be supplemented with an approach that...

    Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 138279 Date du document: 1 juin 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abdul Kader,Shahridan Faiez Bin Mohideen,Rao,Vijayendra

  • Jati inequality in rural Bihar (anglais)

    Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India, and it is generally analyzed with government-defined broad categories, such as Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. In everyday life, however, caste...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8512 Date du document: 10 juillet 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Joshi,Shareen,Kochhar,Nishtha,Rao,Vijayendra

  • Safety nets and natural disaster mitigation: evidence from cyclone Phailin in Odisha (anglais)

    To what degree can vulnerability to extreme weather events be mitigated by access to a rural livelihoods program, particularly with regard to the impacts on women? This paper addresses this question through...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8375 Date du document: 26 mars 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christian,Paul J.,Kandpal,Eeshani,Palaniswamy,Nethra,Rao,Vijayendra

  • Flies without borders : lessons from Chennai on improving India's municipal public health services (anglais)

    India's fast-growing cities face three key challenges in improving public health outcomes. The first is the persistence of weak links in the chain -- notably, slums badly underserved with basic civic services...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8197 Date du document: 18 septembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica,Dasgupta,Rajib,Kugananthan,P.,Rao,Vijayendra,Somanathan,Trikkur V.,Tewari,K.N.

  • Deliberative inequality : a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies (anglais)

    The resurgence of deliberative institutions in the developing world has prompted a renewed interest in the dynamics of citizen engagement. Using text-as-data methods on an original corpus of village assembly...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8119 Date du document: 27 juin 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Parthasarathy,Ramya,Rao,Vijayendra,Palaniswamy,Nethra

  • Unheard voices : the challenge of inducing women's civic speech (anglais)

    Deliberative institutions have gained popularity in the developing world as a means by which to make governance more inclusive and responsive to local needs. However, a growing body of evidence suggests...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8120 Date du document: 27 juin 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Parthasarathy,Ramya,Rao,Vijayendra,Palaniswamy,Nethra

  • Relief from usury : impact of a community-based microcredit program in rural India (anglais)

    The impact of micro-credit interventions on existing credit markets is theoretically ambiguous. Previous empirical work suggests the entry of a joint-liability lender may lead to a positive impact on the...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8021 Date du document: 3 avril 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hoffmann,Vivian,Rao,Vijayendra,Surendra,Vaishnavi,Datta,Upamanyu

  • Deliberative democracy in India (anglais)

    This paper traces the evolution of deliberative institutions in India to understand the role of deliberation in democratic life, as well as the ways in which deliberative bodies influence, and are influenced...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7995 Date du document: 6 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Parthasarathy,Ramya,Rao,Vijayendra