Drawing on over a decade of studying and active practice of "building" state capability in India, this talk offers a deep dive into the dynamics of capability gaps at the frontlines of the Indian State and offer a provocation on why current frameworks for building state capability often fail to address the roots of the problem. Based on emerging experiments in different States and across sectors it also offers glimpses of some promising innovations that offer important lessons on what it will take to do the hard work of state-building away from the glamour of technology and dramatic, sweeping reform politics.

Speaker: Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research, India.
Moderator: Salimah Samji, Director, Building State Capability (BSC)
Location: Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School

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