Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village
This paper explores beneficiary targeting of government programmes in a village in India. The analysis is based on all 228 households of the village and focus group discussions. The results show that there is a large exclusion error in targeted programmes, which have mostly excluded the poor and the...
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| description | This paper explores beneficiary targeting of government programmes in a village in India. The analysis is based on all 228 households of the village and focus group discussions. The results show that there is a large exclusion error in targeted programmes, which have mostly excluded the poor and the needy. Most schemes have a prerequisite of asset ownership, such as agricultural land, which benefits resource-rich farmers with large landholdings. The relationship between benefits received and income of households is best represented by an inverted ‘u’-shape curve, indicating the middle-income category benefits more than the poorest. The scope and scale of welfare programmes, especially Direct Benefit Transfers, increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. For inclusion of the poorest of the poor, welfare and development schemes need to be decoupled from landownership in rural areas. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f48fa6fc100b4053b29173ca6454f0e02023-12-01T22:21:10ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2022-07-01117103010.3390/land11071030Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian VillageAnugu Amarender Reddy0Anindita Sarkar1Yumiko Onishi2Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad 500059, IndiaDepartment of Geography, Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, IndiaIC Net Limited, Delhi 110091, IndiaThis paper explores beneficiary targeting of government programmes in a village in India. The analysis is based on all 228 households of the village and focus group discussions. The results show that there is a large exclusion error in targeted programmes, which have mostly excluded the poor and the needy. Most schemes have a prerequisite of asset ownership, such as agricultural land, which benefits resource-rich farmers with large landholdings. The relationship between benefits received and income of households is best represented by an inverted ‘u’-shape curve, indicating the middle-income category benefits more than the poorest. The scope and scale of welfare programmes, especially Direct Benefit Transfers, increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. For inclusion of the poorest of the poor, welfare and development schemes need to be decoupled from landownership in rural areas.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/7/1030development programmeswelfare schemesbeneficiarytargeted schemessocially disadvantaged groups |
| spellingShingle | Anugu Amarender Reddy Anindita Sarkar Yumiko Onishi Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village Land development programmes welfare schemes beneficiary targeted schemes socially disadvantaged groups |
| title | Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village |
| title_full | Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village |
| title_short | Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village |
| title_sort | assessing the outreach of targeted development programmes a case study from a south indian village |
| topic | development programmes welfare schemes beneficiary targeted schemes socially disadvantaged groups |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/7/1030 |
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