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Bhumi Purohit on Female Leaders and Bureaucratic Resistance

Ideas of India

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Is It Possible to Improve State Capacity?

Given weak state capacity, it becomes easier to engage in these bi s or discriminatory behavior. So if we improved overall state capacity, some of this should go away. But i don't think that is likely without access to political capital. It's just a question of on the margin, who they are choosing to help and who they are not choosing to help.

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