IFPRI PolSem: Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery - 10/21/2019 RPandya-Lorch

Summary: Moderator: Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs & Chief of Staff in the Director General's Office, IFPRI How can information be harnessed to improve rural service delivery and governance? The articles in the new special issue ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/world-development/special-issue/10HB9DTV77Q ) of the journal World Development on “Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery,” coedited by Katrina Kosec (IFPRI) and Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University), seek to answer this question. In this seminar ( http://www.ifpri.org/event/information-governance-and-rural-service-delivery ), speakers will give an overview of the special issue and discuss the importance of institutional contexts, types of information, and information transmission mechanisms in terms of improving rural well-being.