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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Veröffentlicht in:Land (Basel) 2022-07, Vol.11 (7), p.1030
Hauptverfasser: Reddy, Anugu Amarender, Sarkar, Anindita, Onishi, Yumiko
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:2073-445X
2073-445X
DOI:10.3390/land11071030