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Centre for Good Governance and Economic Studies
The Centre studies how the Indian state raises and spends money, designs welfare and builds the conditions for growth. Its work pairs national data with close study of Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, where policy choices play out at enormous scale.
State capacity
How governments plan, spend and deliver
Public finance and welfare
Fiscal sustainability, subsidies and targeted welfare
Growth and investment
Industry, infrastructure and jobs, with Uttar Pradesh as a living laboratory
Implementation
Why good policies fail at the last mile, and how to fix it
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