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Report on Local Democracy
October 19 , 2023
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- A policy research paper titled “The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India” was released by the World Bank.
- The study analyses the effects of local democracy by exploiting a unique natural experiment in the Indian state of Karnataka.
- Local Democracy aligns spending more closely with citizen preferences.
- But these gains accrue more to men, upper castes, and other advantaged social groups.
- Elected leaders are more responsive to citizen needs and cause local bureaucrats to exert more effort.
- Appointed administrators perform better on aspects of governance that are aligned with their specialized skills.
- Local democracy improves governance in some domains.
- But it has no overall impact on economic outcomes or effectiveness of COVID-19 management.
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