Decentralised targeting of transfer programmes: a reassessment

Dilip Mookherjee is professor of economics and director of the Institute for Economic Development at Boston University. Educated at Presidency College Calcutta, Delhi School of Economics, and the London School of Economics, he has taught previously at Stanford University and the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. He works on a combination of theoretical and empirical topics related to inequality, development, political economy, and organisations. Current empirical projects include local governments, political clientelism, financial development, community networks, entrepreneurship, and marketing supply chains in Asia. Theoretical topics include corruption, automation, and globalisation. He is a fellow of BREAD, NBER, CEPR, a member of the Economic Development and Institutions Network, on the executive committee of the Econometric Society, and lead academic for the India programme of the International Growth Centre. He has written many books and also some edited volumes; the latter include his 2006 edited volume Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective (jointly with Pranab Bardhan), published by the MIT Press.