The anatomy of failure : an ethnography of a randomized trial to deepen democracy in rural India
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- Rao, Vijayendra & Ananthpur, Kripa & Malik, Kabir, 2017. "The Anatomy of Failure: An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 481-497.
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Social Accountability; Housing&Human Habitats; Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Governance Indicators; Public Sector Corruption&Anticorruption Measures;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2014-07-13 (Development)
- NEP-EXP-2014-07-13 (Experimental Economics)
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