Shekhar Shah on why accountability and understanding politics matters for improving service delivery

Mar 05, 2014, 01:37 PM

At the 10th anniversary conference for the World Development Report 2004 (Making Services Work for Poor People), we interviewed Shekhar Shah, the Director-General of India's National Council of Applied Economic Research about why accountability matters for service delivery, the need to better understand politics, and the imperfections of decentralisation. More resources from the conference are available here: http://www.odi.org.uk/events/wdr-conference-making-services-work-for-poor-people