A Tale of Trade-offs: The Anatomy of the Direct Benefit Transfers System
While the system was rightly designed to eliminate ghost beneficiaries, the impact of exclusion errors needs to be professionally and independently evaluated in detail.
What Two New Surveys Say About the State of DBT’s Last Mile Woes
In India, the direct benefit transfer (DBT) system has gained enormous acceptance as a method of delivering welfare to the most deserving. It has been the main instrument of governments’ social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
