Karthik Muralidharan Examines the State of the Indian State

Ideas of India | 6 June 2024 | 1h 57m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify

Interview with Karthik Muralidharan about his book Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance. Discusses the lack of state capacity in India, improving the quality of public expenditure, fiscal federalism, methods to improve the hiring process for government, better ways of staffing and using the Indian bureaucracy, randomized control trials and development, and much more.

See also Alex Tabarrok's review at Marginal Revolution.