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Lant Pritchett on Where Did Development Economics Go Wrong?

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Time Stamping

My mother is an indian classical musician. She used to be with the all india radio symphony orchestra, as the indian state would have it. What used to be a 50, 60 member orchestra suddenly shrank to like 12 or 14 members. Now there's a lot of absenteism in this motley crew of musicians. Time stamping was brought to all india. So different governments started implementing school teachers need to be time stamped. And they had different ways of doing that. I think it was the antropetish government, the state government, which adopted it first and then it spread to other governments.

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