Tag: Social benefit transfer

Enabling the community to embrace digital payments as the new normal after the COVID-19 pandemic

Since the onset of the pandemic, the low- and moderate-income (LMI) segment had a direct impact on their day-to-day life. We reflect through Kabita, an LMI customer in Bangladesh, on the barriers LMIs faced during the pandemic and how DFS nudged them towards building resilience.

Dec 2, 2020

Samveet Sahoo and Avi Hossain

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LMI client impressions from Bangladesh and Vietnam

Various socio-economic dimensions drive the financial needs, aspirations, and behaviors of low- and moderate-income (LMI) customers. Customers from Bangladesh and Vietnam, through these snippets, describe their challenges and how the i3 Program helped them overcome these challenges.

Dec 1, 2020

Akshat Pathak, Samveet Sahoo and Ravi Kant

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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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Is India Ready to Phase-out Subsidised Kerosene?

This blog discussed possibilities regarding how India can phase out kerosesne subsidy.

Jan 5, 2018

Ritesh Rautela and Vijay Ravi

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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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