Patching development : information politics and social reform in India / Rajesh Veeraraghavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veeraraghavan, Rajesh, author.

Series:

Modern South Asia.

Oxford scholarship online.

Modern South Asia

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social accounting--India.

Social accounting.

Rural poor--Employment--India.

Rural poor.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (India)--Appropriations and expenditures.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, 'Patching Development' shows how development programs can be designed to work. How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient due to resistance from entrenched local power systems. In 'Patching Development,' Rajesh Veeraraghavan presents an ethnography of one of the largest development programs in the world, the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), and examines NREGA's implementation in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He finds that the local system of power is extremely difficult to transform, not because of inertia, but because of coercive counter strategy from actors at the last mile and their ability to exploit information asymmetries.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Veeraraghavan, Rajesh Patching Development

ISBN:

0-19-756785-1

0-19-756784-3

OCLC:

1287130005