Reforming India's Institutions of Public Expenditure Governance

33 Pages Posted: 20 Sep 2017

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Nirvikar Singh

University of California, Santa Cruz

Date Written: October 18, 2013

Abstract

The poor quality and effectiveness of much of government expenditure in India makes it important to analyze ways of improving effectiveness through institutional reform. Improvements in outcomes include better targeting of redistributive measures and more efficient spending on productive projects. Four potential areas of institutional reform are: (1) improved functioning of individual ministries and departments, at the central and state levels; (2) better coordination across individual ministries and between the center and states, through reform of the Planning Commission; (3) reassignment of expenditure responsibilities across levels of government (center to state and/or state to local); and (4) reassignment of tax authorities to provide improved incentives for expenditure governance through electoral accountability. The paper will discuss each of these four areas of potential institutional reforms, their likely impacts, and possibilities for implementing change.

Suggested Citation

Singh, Nirvikar, Reforming India's Institutions of Public Expenditure Governance (October 18, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3039167 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3039167

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