Rohini Pande

Rohini Pande, professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, co-directs the Evidence for Policy Design Initiative.

Articles By Rohini Pande

How India can use better data and regulations to stop industries from choking its cities

Why does India have 14 of the world’s 20 cities with highest air pollution when it has set limits and stipulated strict criminal punishments to enforce them? And what's a possible solution?

For a house to become a home

The poor often spurn government housing programmes because they do not want to risk losing their social networks.

April wasn’t January

Neither pollution nor congestion significantly decreased as they did during the January experiment. An enduring solution lies in scaling up the smaller, successful programmes.

Impersonal government is good

Automating systems for disclosure may be the best option to strengthen transparency.