Tag: Direct benefit transfer

In this blog post we study the privatisation of grants system in the South Africa

In this ongoing series, we will cover stories of citizens who have been excluded from social protection benefits delivered through the DBT and PDS.

In this ongoing series, we will cover stories of citizens who have been excluded from social protection benefits delivered through the DBT and PDS.

Study on incentive compatibility in welfare delivery

Madhya Pradesh, with an area of 3.08 lakh square kilometres is the second largest State in India after Rajasthan1. It has a total of 50 districts2, 52,117 inhabited villages3 governed by 23,006 panchayats, and as per the 2011 Census, has a population of 7.27 crore4 with more than 75% of it residing in villages.

When you have two systems running in parallel, the hardest part is always managing the interface between the two. Customers don’t usually all migrate to the new system entirely and at the same time, so there is a need for the new system to offer backward compatibility with the older, more established system.

Continuing on our series on Unemployment Support In India, this post provides an overview of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005).

Here are our picks:
1)Direct Cash Transfer Scheme – To be rolled-out from January 1, under this scheme government plans to provide subsidies and other benefits directly to the poor in cash rather than in the form of subsidies.

As the government plans to transfer 29 benefits (pensions, scholarships, fuel subsidies etc.) through the direct cash transfer scheme, we look at what research tells us about unconditional cash transfers.

The National Bureau of Economic Research recently published a working paper by Robert T. Jensen and Nolan H. Miller on this topic.