Are Targeted Unconditional Cash Transfers Effective? Evidence from a Poor Region in India

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• 作者：Aswini Kumar Mishra ; Atasi Kar
• 关键词：Social protection ; Targeting mechanism ; Inclusion and exclusion errors ; Social capital
• 刊名：Social Indicators Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：130
• 期：2
• 页码：819-843
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Quality of Life Research; Microeconomics; Public Health; Human Geography; Quality of Life Research;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0921
• 卷排序：130

文摘

The paper is based on a well-focused and purposive field survey of 200 randomly selected sample households (HHs) from 20 villages of Odisha (the poorest state) in India, provides a critique of present institutional arrangements for delivery of social security measures-in terms of outreach and effectiveness. The exercise shows, on the one hand, the dissonance between below poverty line households and asset/wealth position of households and thus there is strong evidence of inclusion and exclusion errors and on the other, weak targeting efficiency and an important determinant of which seems to be what is called HH social/structural capital.