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The shift to cash transfers: Running better but on the wrong road? [1]

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The Government of India has announced that subsidies on fertilisers, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas will be replaced by cash transfers to end users. A close examination of the objectives of the subsidies in fertiliser and kerosene and the implications of the shift raises some challenging questions.

Publication Date: 
21/05/2011
Devesh Kapur [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
46
21
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Tags:
Finance [4], Poverty [5], Anti-Poverty Programmes [6], Government Of India (GOI) [7], Subsidies [8], Agricultural Inputs [9], Kerosene [10], India [11], LPG [12], Solar Energy [13], Wheat [14], Rice [15], Legumes [16], Agricultural Systems [17]
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