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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Reform in India" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Description: Rajesh Veeraraghavanâs Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India (Oxford University Press, 2022) offers the first ethnographically grounded perspective on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005), which was promulgated as a welfare oriented âright to workâ scheme by the Indian Parliament at the recommendation of civil society organizations and development economists like Jean DrĂ©ze.The book presents a granular case study of the implementation of the scheme in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, and more specifically, the process of âauditingâ that addresses many of the information and technological asymmetries that exist on-the-gr...