Too many outcome shapers are too distant from ground realities
Mint New Delhi|December 24, 2024
The ivory tower is all too real. It explains a key deficiency in well-intentioned but useless analysis
- ANURAG BEHAR

Most of one wall was a high-tech digital screen. The very large room was designed for meetings that many would join online. The opposite wall was glass, through which you had an unobstructed view of 30km out from the 20th floor office of this multilateral institution, which was co-hosting the meeting along with a sensible organization. The topic: The economic empowerment of women in rural India. There were 40 people in the room and a similar number on the screen—crystal clear with great audio.

Quickly, the conversation turned to the ‘care economy.’ It was not clear to me what that meant in rural India, but many people seemed to be sure. Somehow, crÚches became the focus of the discussion. Because there seemed to be a general consensus that crÚches could serve the nutritional needs of very young children, provide more mothers an opportunity to join the workforce and also employ women themselves.

The fluent economists debated the wage premium that would get the best women from the village as crÚche workers. Progress on this matter was bogged down since 20 of the people in the meeting seemed to be economists and they got into the thick of what data was available and what should be used.

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