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Cash transfers as the silver bullet for poverty reduction: A sceptical note [1]

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The current perception that cash transfers can replace public provision of basic goods and services and become a catch-all solution for poverty reduction is false. Where cash transfers have helped to reduce poverty, they have added to public provision, not replaced it.

Publication Date: 
21/05/2011
Jayati Ghosh [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
46
21
67
Tags:
Poverty [4], Finance [5], Anti-Poverty Programmes [6], Services [7], Food Security [8], Food Prices [9], Food Supply [10], India [11], South Asia [12], National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) [13], Women [14], Delhi [15]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poverty
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/finance
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-prices
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-supply
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-asia
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-rural-employment-guarantee-act-nrega
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/women
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/delhi