Visiting Scholar Dev Chatterjee (’09) interviews UC Berkeley professor Pranab Bardhan for India’s Business Standard.
Question: Are programmes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee a good idea?
Answer: First of all, there are interesting ways in which information technology has been used in Mexico and Brazil to identify the beneficiaries and monitor the implementation of massive welfare programmes that can reduce the extent of corruption. Secondly, we should not forget that Indians live in a welfare state for the rich.

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