Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion in India
Ideas of India
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Are Religious Organizations More Inclusive Than Others?
The question is always about inclusion and exclusion. What i found very interesting about these services that you talked about is that they are more inclusive than not, because they catering largely to the poor. And it's not that they want to avoid the free rider problem. They want more people to come and join in the partaking of those services without paying for them. So this is really what we were arguing, that the religious proposition and the non religious services might actually be linked because of poverty and inequality in a way that we might not have thought of before.
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