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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Banerjee, Abhijit |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
E-governance, accountability, and leakage in public programs: Experimental evidence from a financial management reform in India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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12(4), Oct, 2020: p.39-72 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Can e-governance reforms improve government policy? By making information available on a real-time basis, information technologies may reduce the theft of public funds. We analyze a large field experiment and the nationwide scale-up of a reform to India's workfare program. Advance payments were replaced by "just-in-time" payments, triggered by e-invoicing, making it easier to detect misreporting. Leakages went down: program expenditures dropped by 24 percent, while employment slightly increased; there were fewer fake households in the official database; and program officials' personal wealth fell by 10 percent. However, payment delays increased. The nationwide scale-up resulted in a persistent 19 percent reduction in program expenditure. – Reproduced |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Financial management reform, Government policy, Information technologies |
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics |
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| Subject DIP |
E- GOVERNANCE |
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Articles |
