A research centre co-founded by Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo is being considered by the Siddaramaiah administration as a potential evaluator to study the impact of Congress’ five guarantees being implemented at a huge cost to the exchequer.
The state-run Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) will commission the evaluation of the five guarantees, Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) L K Atheeq told DH .
The government has already reached out to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) — started by Banerjee, Duflo and Chicago Booth’s Sendhil Mullainathan — to discuss conducting studies on the five guarantees. J-PAL is learnt […]
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