This is a very interesting idea, but of course not a silver bullet. There's some interesting comments too. Can't easily quote the entire text via the phone...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services Paying Zero for Public Services Imagine that you are an old lady from a poor household in a town in the outskirts of Chennai city India. All you have wanted desperately for the last year and a half is to get a title in your name for the land you own, called patta. You need this land title to serve as a collateral for a bank loan you have been hoping to borrow to finance your granddaughter’s college education. But there has been a problem: the Revenue Department official responsible for giving out the patta has been asking you to pay a little fee for this service That’s right, a bribe. But you are poor (you are officially assessed to be be... Sent from my mobile device, apologies for terseness, spelling and style.
