Tag: Electronic benefit transfers

The Aadhaar way

Can Aadhaar become rails of digital disbursement for subsidy payments? MicroSave presents case studies that show huge potential of Aadhaar for G2P payments.

Nov 26, 2018

Amir Syed

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The State of Bank-led Initiatives for E/M-Banking and its Potential

In 2012 Ignacio Mas worked with MSC to look at the state of digital financial services in India, the type of products that poor people want, and the role of microfinance institutions/SHGs in digital financial services systems. Ignacio also ran a training for all MSC staff, and we then asked him to record some of […]

Nov 6, 2018

MSC

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Designing Beneficiary-Centric ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ Programmes: Lessons from India – Part II

This Policy Note Part II, details out the “Seven Steps of DBT Programme Design” for a robust and beneficiary centric direct benefit transfer programme.

Sep 23, 2016

Arshi Aadil, Lokesh Singh, Ritesh Rautela, Rridhee Malhotra and Vijay Ravi

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Designing Beneficiary-Centric ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ Programmes: Lessons from India – Part I

This Note as a first part of the two-step series explains the pre-requisites and the steps, which if followed, can help in implementation of successful government DBT programmes.

Sep 19, 2016

Arshi Aadil, Lokesh Singh, Ritesh Rautela, Rridhee Malhotra and Vijay Ravi

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Feeding India’s Poor: Plugging Leakages, Without Doing Any Harm

This policy brief discusses two distinct and more recent approaches, namely, Direct Benefit Transfers and e-PDS (i.e. Automation in PDS), as undertaken by different states to address leakages.

May 31, 2016

Isvary Sivalingam and Lokesh Singh

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Jansuraksha: India’s New Tryst with Mass Insurance

In this Policy Brief, we analyse the performance trends of the three Jansuraksha insurance products (Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and Atal Pension Yojana).

Aug 21, 2015

Premasis Mukherjee

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