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More than 100 Officers who have attended the webinar got benefitted with the valuable insights of the speaker, Prof. Karthik Muralidharan, on “Accelerating India's Development: The Imperative of State Capacity” & “Improving state-level statistical systems for governance".

Great stuff! The science of using science is invaluable and these changemakers are staying true to their name: they are changing the world! Bravo Karthik Muralidharan and Abhijeet Singh!

For Bangalore book lovers: I'll be in conversation with Manish Sabharwal tomorrow at the Bangalore Lit Fest discussing my book on Accelerating India's Development (and signing books). Look forward to seeing many of you there!

Monday evening in Zurich: Public Keynote Lecture by Prof. Karthik Muralidharan about the role of state capacity in global poverty reduction. Karthik Muralidharan is a brilliant thinker and an inspiring speaker. Don't miss it! 6:30pm, Rämistrasse 59, Room G-01. ced.uzh.ch/events/2024-12…

Each year, #GrandTamasha features several brilliant authors and their equally brilliant books. Click below to read Milan Vaishnav's must reads for 2024. 📚 bit.ly/3DgLFvk

For folks in Mumbai: I will be giving the Prof. D T Lakdawala Memorial Lecture at the University of Mumbai (University of Mumbai) this week on Wed, 8 Jan (3-430pm) chaired by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha on "Accelerating India's Development" It is a public lecture open to all; details below:

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Honored to be giving a Diamond Jubilee Lecture at the Delhi School of Economics next week (Tuesday, 21 Jan at 3pm) on "Accelerating India's Development: The Imperative of State Capacity" hosted by Ram Singh; chaired by Amitabh Kant It's a public lecture - all are welcome!

It was an honor to give the keynote address World Bank Conference on Public Institutions for Development. The recording of my lecture on: "Accelerating Development: The Imperative of State Capacity" is now online at: worldbank.org/en/news/video/… Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez Indermit Gill

📢To Wrap-Up Day 2 Join us from 6:20 PM - 7:30 PM on 15th Feb 2025 for a session on Bureaucratic & Governance Reforms for Viksit Bharat with Prof. Karthik Muralidharan, Tata Chancellor's Professor of Economics, UC San Diego. Karthik Muralidharan #ViksitBharat

For folks in Chennai: I will be giving a public lecture on "Accelerating India's Development" this Friday, 21 Feb at 4pm at the Madras School of Economics Madras School of Economics Look forward to seeing you there!

Improving Equity and Employment: Insights from Prof. Karthik Muralidharan during the Post Budget Webinar on BUILDING RURAL PROSPERITY & RESILIENCE In a recent discussion, Prof. Kartik Muralidharan, Tata Chancellor's Professor of Economics, University of California San Diego; and

Was a great pleasure to meet with Bill Gates yesterday in Delhi, exchange signed copies of our books, and discuss ideas for accelerating global development and how innovations in India can contribute to this goal.

Bureaucracy and hope often seem mutually exclusive, as bureaucracy tends to maintain the status quo while hope drives change. However, this book instilled hope in me, offering practical solutions to complex problems. Thank you Karthik Muralidharan

In the March issue, "Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India" by Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, and Sandip Sukhtankar zurl.co/70qn1

Thoughtful blog post by David McKenzie World Bank Research on my book on the centrality of better state capacity for "Accelerating India's Development" and the parallels with the "abundance" framework of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in the US context.

🎙️ Presenting a new edition of #I4IConversations! Listen to Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE Department of Economics) and Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego) discuss the motivation and lessons from Karthik's new book, "Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance" ideasforindia.in/topics/governa…

In the most recent issue of The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...), we (with Kaspar Wuthrich and Karthik Muralidharan) provide guidance on how to analyze and design experiments with factorial designs (or cross-cuts). A🧵below:

I think I verbally cite this paper every other week in conversations with people about how they're presenting/interpreting their cross-cut experiments