civil servants

What do we know about the implementation infrastructure in governments? How can we learn more, and what benefits would improved government analytics have for citizens?

Assigning civil servants to environments to which they are most socially proximate may actually limit their ability to effectively serve the nation

Robin Burgess on motivating civil servants, breaking the poverty trap by increasing productivity, and the political economy of electricity

Stefan Dercon, former Chief Economist at DFID, on the importance of being receptive to new ideas and how to use bits of evidence to inform a decision.*

An experiment shows that public servants make errors when interpreting data, incorrectly concluding that it aligns with their ideological preferences