POLICY SEMINAR: INFORMATION, GOVERNANCE, AND RURAL SERVICE DELIVERY

October 21, 2019, 12:15 - 01:45 PM EDT

1201 Eye Street NW
12th Floor Conference Center
Washington, DC 20005
United States

Co-Organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).

How can information be harnessed to improve rural service delivery and governance? The articles in new special issue of the journal World Development on “Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery,” co-edited by Katrina Kosec (IFPRI) and Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University), seek to answer this question.

In this seminar, 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.

Speakers

• Katrina Kosec, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Leonard Wantchekon, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
• David K. Evans, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development (CGD)
• Neha Kumar, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Tewodaj Mogues, Senior Economist and Technical Assistance Advisor, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Moderator

• Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs & Chief of Staff in the Director General's Office, IFPRI