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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, more popularly known as NREGA, has come under sharp focus since the results of the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections were announced. While many commentators have attributed the UPA’s return to power to the success of NREGA, some are still ske  ....Read more

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What's your point Mr. Rohit Kumar??By: Srinivas | Saturday , 27 Jun '09 5:28:54 AM Reply | Forward This article has little to add in terms of novel ideas for better implementation of NREGA. It does not justify why Randomized control trials (RCTs) which are expensive, and time consuming are better than any other statistical method for improving the programme design of NREGA. While predictably expressing a disdian for "experts" the author seems to forget that undertaking RCTs also requires considerable expertize ( (which evidently he must have acquired from Harvard or MIT). In that sense the purpose of this article is advocacy for a particular kind of expertise.I am not sure if Mr.Rohit is familiar with reservation expressed by reputed western academics about the efficacy of RCTs. Public interest will be better served if the author cared to develop a more balanced view based on better grasp of other various evaluation methods and limitations of RCTs, and leave the task of popularizing RCTs to World Bank
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