Tag: Aadhaar Digital Financial Services

One Nation One Ration Card – The Road Ahead

The blog highlights the road ahead for the Indian government’s new program—One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC). The objective of the program is to build upon the digitization of the Public Distribution System (PDS) with a focus on beneficiary-centric reforms.

May 27, 2020

Mitul Thapliyal and Abhishek Jain

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Deepening financial inclusion through cash transfers: The case of PKH in Indonesia

In 2017, the Government of Indonesia (GoI) began digitizing social benefit transfers to improve delivery efficiency and achieve sustainable financial inclusion. Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH), a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, was the first major social assistance payment program (G2P) digitized by the government. It provides incentives for the following: Pregnant and lactating mothers, infants, […]

Nov 13, 2019

Astri Sri Sulastri and TVS Ravi Kumar

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Digital Governance: Is Krishna a Glimpse of the Future?

The state of Andhra Pradesh is recognized as a leader in using technology to improve the delivery of public services, programs and subsidies. Many of its innovations were piloted in Krishna District, which has been visited by development agencies and delegations from many countries.

Jul 3, 2019

Arshi Aadil, Alan Gelb, Anurodh Giri, Anit Mukherjee, Kyle Navis and Mitul Thapliyal

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Agent Network Accelerator Survey – Indonesia Country Report 2015

Digital finance services (DFS) was launched several years ago in Indonesia but has not scaled without agent networks. Recent regulation in 2014, begins to pave the way for different players to build their networks and could be an exciting catalyst for the country, but players must approach this complex task methodically and strategically which does not yet seem to be happening for the most part.

Feb 25, 2015

Ghiyazuddin Mohammad, Elwyn Panggabean, Maha Khan and Grace Retnowati

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District readiness for G2P payments: Ready or not… Well, still mostly ‘not’ part – II

Here we discuss how MicroSave has responded to system challenge for EBTs and developed “district readiness assessment” (DRA) tool, to assess the readiness of a district to deliver EBTs.

Mar 6, 2014

Ritesh Rautela and Lokesh Singh

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Aadhaar Enabled Direct Benefits Transfer in Aurangabad

MicroSave’s pilot study in India highlights barriers, best practices and a roadmap to implement the ambitious, policy initiative of transferring the government benefits directly into the Aadhaar linked accounts of the beneficiaries.

Feb 16, 2013

Puneet Chopra, Nitish Narain, Nishant Kumar, Anirban Roy and Amir Syed

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