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Can Information Improve Rural
Governance and Service Delivery?
Evidence from a Special Issue of World Development
Katrina Kosec
Senior Research Fellow
Development Strategy and Governance Division
International Food Policy Research Institute
Washington, DC | October 21, 2019
Technological
Advancements are
Affecting Policies
and Citizens’
Welfare
Autocratic politics:
 “'Revolution 2.0': How Social
Media Toppled A Dictator” (NPR,
2012)
 “How Social Media Helps
Dictators” (Foreign Policy, 2016)
Democratic politics:
 High presence of elected
policymakers on social media
 Influencing foreign and domestic
policy
The Information Revolution
Mobile
cellular
subscriptions
Individuals
using the
Internet
Can Information Improve Rural Service Delivery and
Governance?
 Rural areas (with 68% of the poor) are unique:
o Costly to serve/ not well integrated
o Service providers lack information about demands of
service users
o Service users know little about the mandates and
capabilities of service providers
 Governments usually deliver public services precisely
in sectors in which market failures prevail
 Poor rural service delivery (e.g. low access, low quality,
low responsiveness) common in developing countries
 Improved access to information is a possible route to
improved rural governance and service delivery
Research to Help Uncover the Effects of Information is Being
Increasingly Carried out via Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)
• 2019 Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economics went
to Abhijit Banerjee,
Esther Duflo, and
Michael Kremer:
Experiment-based
approach to
development economics
Why is Information Important for Rural Service Delivery and
Governance?
 Politicians base decisions about taxes, spending, laws, and policies not
only on the set of rules and institutions in place, but also on the information
at their disposal
 For electoral incentives to work, citizens must have information on what
politicians’ mandates are and how well they have performed vis-à-vis
those mandates
 Even in more autocratic settings, information in the hands of citizens can
discipline policymakers to respond, such as through protests
Special Issue of World Development: “Information,
Governance, and Rural Service Delivery” (2019)
 Includes 9 studies – authors will talk about the findings (and their
implications) from 3 of them today
 Introduction (Kosec and Wantchekon, 2019) presents:
o A conceptual framework for predicting when information will bring about
positive developments
o A systematic review of the evidence (48 studies)
o Lessons for development practitioners and researchers
Conceptual Framework: When Does Information Work?
 Information can help improve rural governance—but only if it is:
1. Perceived as relevant by recipients
o Boas and Hidalgo 2018; Grossman, Platas, and Rodden 2018; Batista, Seither, and Vicente
2018
2. Recipients needed to have the power to act on it
o Mogues and Olofinbiyi 2019; Buntaine, Daniels, and Devlin 2018
3. Recipients need to have the incentives to act on it
o Mogues and Olofinbiyi 2019; Evans, Holtemeyer, and Kosec 2019
 When all three are in place, this can improve governance-related outcomes
o Kumar et al. 2018; Wantchekon and Rias 2019; Evans, Holtemeyer, and Kosec 2019
What Does it Mean for Information to Be Relevant?
 Touches on an issue or concern that is salient to the recipient
 Not already known
 Individual has the education, knowledge, and/or skills to understand it
o Different individuals may understand the same piece of information
differently
 Perceived to be accurate, credible, meaningful, and sufficiently specific in
a world with increasingly more abundant information
o High signal-to-noise ratio
o Often occurs when the sender is perceived as credible
o Individuals must be able to discern true from ‘‘fake” news
What Does it Mean to Have the Power to Act on Information?
 Policymakers: resources, capabilities, and mandates must permit them to
meaningfully change their behavior in response to information
 Citizens: their rights as citizens and their position within the community—in
which elite control is often present, and poor and rural citizens often have
low physical mobility—must permit them to respond to the information
What Does it Mean to Have the Incentives to Act on
Information?
 Acting on the information can be costly; costs include:
o For citizens: attend a village meeting, vote, petition government,
participate in a protest, travel to meet a policymaker, share information
with a neighbor, etc
o For government: survey service users about experiences, invest more
in service delivery, design and implement better monitoring systems for
frontline providers, hold a townhall meeting, engage citizens in
budgeting processes, etc
 Acting on the information must be net beneficial, if one is to incur the costs
 Political budget cycles may explain a failure to act on information
Reviewing the Evidence on Information’s Impacts on Rural
Governance and Service Delivery
 Systematic literature review – identified 48 empirical studies of the effects
of information on rural service delivery from developing countries
 58 percent positive impact, 42 percent mixed/ zero/ negative
 No cases of positive impacts when any of the three conditions was missing
 All mixed/ zero/ negative impacts had at least one of the three conditions
missing (average of 1.25 missing)
 Supports our interpretation of the three conditions (relevance, power, and
incentives) as necessary ones
 NOT sufficient conditions (e.g., even if someone acts on information,
others may block them from impacting service delivery)
Key Policy Take-Aways
 The institutional context, type of information, and information transmission
mechanism hugely matter
 May need to temper enthusiasm about the prospects for information to generate
accountability (be careful in RCTs)
 More modest goals may be more appropriate (e.g., increases in knowledge
rather than immediate changes in behaviors or policies)
 We need more work on how to bring about relevance, power, and incentives
 Government wields tremendous power to affect the flow or relevant info:
o Supportive: Supporting free press, setting up government websites, publicly posting
information, encouraging citizen dialogue, involving citizens in decision-making
o Blocking: Crack down on free flow of information, disseminate fake news, engage in
vote-buying to ensure that voters do not use their information against the government
 So do non-state actors (e.g., media/ civic orgs/ NGOs/ donors/ researchers)
Katrina Kosec, "POLICY SEMINAR Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)"

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Katrina Kosec, "POLICY SEMINAR Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)"

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  • 2. Can Information Improve Rural Governance and Service Delivery? Evidence from a Special Issue of World Development Katrina Kosec Senior Research Fellow Development Strategy and Governance Division International Food Policy Research Institute Washington, DC | October 21, 2019
  • 3. Technological Advancements are Affecting Policies and Citizens’ Welfare Autocratic politics:  “'Revolution 2.0': How Social Media Toppled A Dictator” (NPR, 2012)  “How Social Media Helps Dictators” (Foreign Policy, 2016) Democratic politics:  High presence of elected policymakers on social media  Influencing foreign and domestic policy
  • 5. Can Information Improve Rural Service Delivery and Governance?  Rural areas (with 68% of the poor) are unique: o Costly to serve/ not well integrated o Service providers lack information about demands of service users o Service users know little about the mandates and capabilities of service providers  Governments usually deliver public services precisely in sectors in which market failures prevail  Poor rural service delivery (e.g. low access, low quality, low responsiveness) common in developing countries  Improved access to information is a possible route to improved rural governance and service delivery
  • 6. Research to Help Uncover the Effects of Information is Being Increasingly Carried out via Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) • 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics went to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer: Experiment-based approach to development economics
  • 7. Why is Information Important for Rural Service Delivery and Governance?  Politicians base decisions about taxes, spending, laws, and policies not only on the set of rules and institutions in place, but also on the information at their disposal  For electoral incentives to work, citizens must have information on what politicians’ mandates are and how well they have performed vis-à-vis those mandates  Even in more autocratic settings, information in the hands of citizens can discipline policymakers to respond, such as through protests
  • 8. Special Issue of World Development: “Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery” (2019)  Includes 9 studies – authors will talk about the findings (and their implications) from 3 of them today  Introduction (Kosec and Wantchekon, 2019) presents: o A conceptual framework for predicting when information will bring about positive developments o A systematic review of the evidence (48 studies) o Lessons for development practitioners and researchers
  • 9. Conceptual Framework: When Does Information Work?  Information can help improve rural governance—but only if it is: 1. Perceived as relevant by recipients o Boas and Hidalgo 2018; Grossman, Platas, and Rodden 2018; Batista, Seither, and Vicente 2018 2. Recipients needed to have the power to act on it o Mogues and Olofinbiyi 2019; Buntaine, Daniels, and Devlin 2018 3. Recipients need to have the incentives to act on it o Mogues and Olofinbiyi 2019; Evans, Holtemeyer, and Kosec 2019  When all three are in place, this can improve governance-related outcomes o Kumar et al. 2018; Wantchekon and Rias 2019; Evans, Holtemeyer, and Kosec 2019
  • 10. What Does it Mean for Information to Be Relevant?  Touches on an issue or concern that is salient to the recipient  Not already known  Individual has the education, knowledge, and/or skills to understand it o Different individuals may understand the same piece of information differently  Perceived to be accurate, credible, meaningful, and sufficiently specific in a world with increasingly more abundant information o High signal-to-noise ratio o Often occurs when the sender is perceived as credible o Individuals must be able to discern true from ‘‘fake” news
  • 11. What Does it Mean to Have the Power to Act on Information?  Policymakers: resources, capabilities, and mandates must permit them to meaningfully change their behavior in response to information  Citizens: their rights as citizens and their position within the community—in which elite control is often present, and poor and rural citizens often have low physical mobility—must permit them to respond to the information
  • 12. What Does it Mean to Have the Incentives to Act on Information?  Acting on the information can be costly; costs include: o For citizens: attend a village meeting, vote, petition government, participate in a protest, travel to meet a policymaker, share information with a neighbor, etc o For government: survey service users about experiences, invest more in service delivery, design and implement better monitoring systems for frontline providers, hold a townhall meeting, engage citizens in budgeting processes, etc  Acting on the information must be net beneficial, if one is to incur the costs  Political budget cycles may explain a failure to act on information
  • 13. Reviewing the Evidence on Information’s Impacts on Rural Governance and Service Delivery  Systematic literature review – identified 48 empirical studies of the effects of information on rural service delivery from developing countries  58 percent positive impact, 42 percent mixed/ zero/ negative  No cases of positive impacts when any of the three conditions was missing  All mixed/ zero/ negative impacts had at least one of the three conditions missing (average of 1.25 missing)  Supports our interpretation of the three conditions (relevance, power, and incentives) as necessary ones  NOT sufficient conditions (e.g., even if someone acts on information, others may block them from impacting service delivery)
  • 14. Key Policy Take-Aways  The institutional context, type of information, and information transmission mechanism hugely matter  May need to temper enthusiasm about the prospects for information to generate accountability (be careful in RCTs)  More modest goals may be more appropriate (e.g., increases in knowledge rather than immediate changes in behaviors or policies)  We need more work on how to bring about relevance, power, and incentives  Government wields tremendous power to affect the flow or relevant info: o Supportive: Supporting free press, setting up government websites, publicly posting information, encouraging citizen dialogue, involving citizens in decision-making o Blocking: Crack down on free flow of information, disseminate fake news, engage in vote-buying to ensure that voters do not use their information against the government  So do non-state actors (e.g., media/ civic orgs/ NGOs/ donors/ researchers)