NOVAFRICA Podcast: Effects of Economic and Social Incentives on Bureaucratic Quality: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone

We have released the episode 4 of the 6th season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks with Maarten Voors, from Wageningen University, focuses on his paper entitled “Effects of Economic and Social Incentives on Bureaucratic Quality: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone”.

What are the challenges in incentivizing public service providers and why can this be an issue in developing countries? What recruitment mechanism will public service providers work better? How important health deliveries are and what are the cost and social benefits? Should government seek a balance between community monitoring and incentives payment mechanism taking into account the social cost?

This episode answers to all of these questions.

Listen to the Episode 4 here.

Find out more about this podcast series.