India Regional Director @IDinsight. PhD Economics, Oxford. Previously: Trade Policy Advisor, Vanuatu. Interested in understanding how governments can be better.
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May 12
Would just love to know how many AEs actually respond, and if they don’t, if the helpline works.
BDA is now more Pro-Citizen & Transparent!
We have divided the entire city into sections and assigned dedicated Executive Engineers (AE/AEE/EEs) for each area. These engineers are fully responsible for all BDA-related works in their jurisdiction.
Now you can easily find the responsible AE/AEE/EE for your area!
Just visit the BDA website and check the interactive map.
bdakarnataka.in/jurisdiction…
Facing any issue or encroachment?
→ Look up your section on the map
→ Contact your AE/EE directly
No response? Call our 24x7 Helpline: 94831 66622 — we will take immediate action.
Your area, your engineer, your voice.
@Captain_Mani72
#BDA #NammaBDA #ProCitizenBDA #TransparentBDA #BengaluruFirst
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The odds are what they are because a lot of people don’t leave their children outside, unattended
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Delhi: Do you know my father?
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13 Jan 2023
So weird to be binging on Narcos Mexico and watching gruesome murders and kidnappings in 1980s Guadalajara... and NYT 2023 is encouraging us to go there to celebrate queer diversity.
12 Jan 2023
21. Guadalajara, Mexico nytimes.com/shared/v2/intera…
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Karan Nagpal retweeted
2 Dec 2022
Because the best writers aren't providing just knowledge, they are providing wisdom too. That wisdom comes in the form of novelty and asking new questions—two things an AI can't do yet.
Let me show you with an example.
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30 Nov 2022
Lots of PTSD reading this thread!
A long time ago, when struggling with this topic, @BrownstoneEcon shared this b'ful paper on the intellectual history of household definitions, which reveals the high-modernist instincts lying at the heart of our efforts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf…
30 Nov 2022
1. “What is a household?” A constant debate at each interviewer training. Formal definition of people living under the same roof and eating from the same kitchen for at least 6 of the prior 12 months does not cut it with our interviewers.
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26 Nov 2022
Great thread on why being so deeply embedded in a particular context helps you do development economics better:
25 Nov 2022
This thread is for young ‘uns from poor countries who want to do development economics. We got a paper out that we wrote about South Africa, where a couple of the authors are from. Many people tell you writing about your home country is a bad idea
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Karan Nagpal retweeted
25 Oct 2022
1/4 Happy to report that our paper (@jo_ruchika, @krnaa, @therealfraker) on using voter rolls for household sample surveys in India is out in Field Methods! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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28 May 2022
A major challenge with all of India’s Covid systems - from Air Suvidha to the beautiful ICMR & NIC portals - is that they assume all of India lives in villages, and everyone knows their GP, tehsil, block, and district. So these systems fail for Mumbai, Delhi etc.
27 May 2022
The Air Suvidha form was designed to make you regret coming/returning to India.
So much information asked for including which 'tehsil' I'm going to. I have no idea how secure the info is. And what tehsil is Mumbai in yaar?
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26 May 2022
This is an amazing initiative and I love (and have frequently used) @open_phil's Cause Prioritization Framework. It would be great if OP can over-weight submissions from outside the EA community, and find a way to get submissions from non-Twitter-elites.
25 May 2022
“What new cause area should Open Philanthropy consider funding?” Today we’re launching the Cause Exploration Prizes to gather thoughtful answers to this question and others that help us best use our resources causeexplorationprizes.com/
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Karan Nagpal retweeted
26 May 2022
Years in the making @NITIAayog recently launched the National Data & Analytics Platform! Managed by @IDinsight & @devdatalab, we hope the platform will improve access & use of Indian govt data.
Read more about the platform in @bsindia: bit.ly/3wL2Yhj
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24 May 2022
A friend asked Jean Dreze: "how has economics helped in your work?" "It's often been a hindrance."
Reading @MittaliSethi's article, I'm thinking the same way about "digital data systems" - they are becoming a hindrance to actually using data.
Often, Excel is enough to excel :)
3 Mar 2022
Some labour of love. It took us eight months to write, edit and think through the details of this article. The intention was to bring alive challenges on the field and talk to whoever works with nutrition on ground. Please do share feedback. :)
idronline.org/article/health…
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23 May 2022
Researchers working in DRC have reinvented the Zamindari system, and feel pretty good about themselves: aeaweb.org/research/state-ca…
"In the Central group, state agents were responsible for door-to-door collection...In the Local group, city chiefs took control of collection efforts."
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23 May 2022
"There's a tendency to view local leaders as backward institutions...need to be considered as allies... local elites won’t allow the DRC to raise as much taxes as a modern admin state, it could be an important way station." Yes, but the train may be going in the wrong direction.
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15 May 2022
Great points by @kadambari_shah and @VibhavMariwala on potential for data use - esp thinking critically about frequency & granularity, rather than relying just on NSS/Census. Two additional points and a dilemma:
1. Policymakers should *want to use* the data rather than… (1/2)
13 May 2022
'Indian State was set up to control, not govern. Data-driven policy-making can be antidote'
@VibhavMariwala, senior analyst and @kadambari_shah, senior associate, IDFC Institute, write
Illustration: Ramandeep Kaur @RKaurArtDesign
#ThePrintOpinion
bit.ly/3FGuoZA
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15 May 2022
Now the dilemma: Kadambari & Vibhav rightly say that all this data should also be open to citizens and researchers. But no politician has the incentive to make bad news public. And sometimes data doesn’t get collected, lest it show the govt in a bad light. So sometimes… (4/n)
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15 May 2022
…we will have to balance this tradeoff between getting data to be actually used, and making it public for citizens, researchers etc. I don’t yet know how to reconcile these imperatives. Lots more to explore here! (n/n) (thanks to @rahul_tverma for getting this article on my TL!)
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14 May 2022
This is also my experience of a Punjabi wedding.
But unless we randomly assign men to “stand and serve” or “sit and don’t move” treatment arms, and show heterogeneity by age and marriage status, I don’t think we should accept this claim…
14 May 2022
Half my followers will find this obvious
The others may be unconvinced
But ethnographies can teach us so much about something often omitted in quantitative studies, yet seems universally valued:
#Respect
With seniority, Herero men gain status & better seating 👇
(Durham 2004)
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