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Seventy-five years after Independence, India has much to be proud of. We are the world’s biggest democracy as well as the fastest-growing large economy. Yet, we also face profound challenges that hinder both individual well-being and aggregate growth, including education and skills, health and nutrition, public safety, justice, social protection, and jobs. This seminal book systematically analyses India’s governance challenges, especially in delivering essential public services, and highlights how these are limiting India’s development.

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This wonderful book by Prof. Muralidharan is a seminal contribution to the theory and praxis of economic transformation of a large country. Every country is of course unique in its own ways, but the sheer size of India makes the tasks facing the policymakers rather daunting. In coming years these challenges are getting more complex while the urgency to meet them is becoming greater as that the growth accelerator called “demographic dividend” is slowing down with every passing day. Fortunately, this is precisely where Prof. Muralidharan’s policy insights offered in this book are almost heaven sent to our policymakers. I hope they will “just do it.”Vijay Kelkar: Chairman 13th Finance Commission; Former Finance Secretary, Govt. of India; co-author of In Service of the Republic

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Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego. His research spans public finance and development economics, with a focus on improving education, health, welfare, and public service delivery, and has been published in many of the world’s leading academic journals.

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