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Summary Sentence: Anjali Thomas - Pipe Dreams: How Bureaucratic Hurdles and Identity Politics Shape Water Access in Urban India
Full Summary: Anjali Thomas - Pipe Dreams: How Bureaucratic Hurdles and Identity Politics Shape Water Access in Urban India
BBISS Speaker Series Banner for 4/13/23Anjali Thomas, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director, Nunn School Program in Global Development, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
April 13, 2023, 3 - 4 PM ET
Hybrid Event - Teams Link
BBISS Offices, 760 Spring Street, Suite 118
Refreshments will be served.
Abstract: Water scarcity is a pressing problem faced by poorer citizens across the globe. Using a large factorial field experiment in Mumbai, we assess how a bureaucratic facilitation drive and a political coordination campaign impacted the likelihood that informal settlement-dwellers secured municipal water connections.
