Someone bent it <| sep |> You need to unplug the lead numbered ' 1 ' from the PSVR and put that into a spare HDMI input on the TV to get 4 k and HDR from the PS 4 Pro . Otherwise , you will only get 4 k at the display . <| sep |> I should be free most of today <| sep |> You ready ? <| sep |> Eating our young is not something our species does . But would it be wrong ? It sounds that some are arguing that our intelligence is so superior to our other mammal kin that we alone have a special set of rules that only we should abide by . Well , unlike most mammals , we are moral agents , so yeah . <| sep |> Do you have trades I collect nightmare before Christmas <| sep |> Is consistent with her other actions and CTR etc <| sep |># Economic aspirations and the Indian State 621 x 414 LiveMintPeriod 220161122 PhotosOpinionblackmoney 5 kG 5 B 621 x 414 LiveMint . jpgThe struggle with effective implementation of demonetization is a cautionary tale for the other major project involving similar mobilization , the rollout of the GST . Photo AFPAmid the ongoing demonetization debates , a critical missing ingredient is that of state capacity . Would things have been much different if demonetization was planned out in detail and then executed ? We would be inclined to argue to the contrary and claim that the Indian State currently does not have the capacity to execute such a project involving national mobilization on a sustained basis without serious deficiencies and failings . In other words , planning would not have made enough gains on execution efficiency to offset the loss from leakage of information . In our justreleased report on India ' s economic growth prospects , we outline a comprehensive framework for analysing India ' s lessdiscussed state capacity failings and suggest a set of measures to address them . Broadly , statecapability failure manifests itself in two ways implementation deficit , and decisionmaking paralysis . Factors contributing to implementation deficit are familiar . They are rampant corruption , badly managed public facilities , poor quality of publicservice delivery , and pervasive failures in the bidding and management of various types of contracts . Decision paralysis is a consequence of debilitating , but lessdiscussed , institutional power shifts of recent years . These trends include the actions of judges , anticorruption investigators and vigilance agencies , auditors , and right to information administrators . By shrinking the space available for public servants , including political representatives , they have induced decision paralysis . The prescriptions on overcoming implementation deficit are well known . These include reforms to procurements and personnel deployments , extensive use of information technology applications and data analytics , performancemanagement measures , decentralization of functions to promote accountability and recruitments to bridge acute deficiencies , especially in important regulatory positions . Addressing decision paralysis requires action at multiple levels . First , it would help to pass the proposed amendments pending in Parliament to Section 131 diii of the Prevention of Corruption Act that introduces means to implicate officials for criminal misconduct . Second , since the Right to Information Act , 2005 has reached its 10 year anniversary , this may be a good time to review its implementation . Exempting communications related to deliberative processes in the government , which are exempted even in the US Freedom of Information Act , must be considered . Third , a committee should examine the methods and processes used by auditors and investigative agencies . Auditors should confine to their constitutional mandate of examining whether public money has been spent in accordance with prevailing rules and whether due process has been followed in decision making . They should refrain from passing judgement on the merits of departmental decisions or policies . The UK ' s National Audit Office , for example , specifically refrains from commenting on the merits of the policy . Performance and policy audits should be done by independent and professionally competent thirdparty agencies , not by auditors . Fourth , investigative processes have to be reformed by equipping investigators with professional expertise in scrutinizing cases involving financial and other domain knowledge complexities . Once it is established that the decision has been made by a competent authority following due process , investigations should cease . Both investigators and auditors would do well to bear in mind the principle that their findings should clearly distinguish between genuine errors and mala fide actions . Fifth , reforms to restrain judicial overreach and snowballing litigation are both urgent and important . It is a worry if imagined riots by the highest court in the land become a basis for its intervention into an executive decision . One intervention could be to gradually phase out tribunals and replace them with sectoral benches in the higher courts . Principles and rules that limit the range of a judge ' s individual discretion and draw the line between judicial activism and judicial excess , especially on the issue of entertaining public interest litigation need to be laid down . Perhaps , a committee of exjudges appointed by the Supreme Court itself is best positioned to do that . The Supreme Court should then require that all courts across the countryitself includedfollow those guidelines . The struggle with effective implementation of demonetization is a cautionary tale for the other major project involving similar mobilization , the rollout of the goods and services tax . Indeed , one of the consequences of the demonetization exercise is the spotlight it has shone on the difficulty of sustained mobilization of the state machinery on a nationwide basis at short notice . The shortterm economic costs and hardships that have arisen out of the sudden and massive demonetization will have been worth it , if hurdles to enhancement to state capability begin to be addressed too . Importantly , its adversarial attitude towards economic offenders will be acceptable only if the State augments its attitude and capacity to accommodate genuine economic aspirations and activity . This column is based on the authors ' joint work , Can India Grow ? published by Carnegie India Ceip . org 2 g 3 EFlNComments are welcome at viewslivemint . comVersion 0 . 5 b Function I post the article ' s text as a comment if the website is adblocker unfriendly . I accept commands ! Powered by