Will the JAM trinity dismantle the PDS?
journal contribution
posted on 2016-10-14, 11:05 authored by Silvia MasieroThe platform known as the JAM Trinity (an acronym for Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and mobile numbers) may enable a shift from the current Public Distribution System, based on price subsidies, to the direct transfer of benefi ts. However, it is incorrect to argue that JAM technologies will necessarily lead to the demise of the PDS. State-level experiences of computerisation, recounted here, reveal that the same technologies can actually be tailored to improve the PDS, by contributing to reduce the problem of leakage that affects it.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Economic and Political WeeklyVolume
50Issue
45Pages
21 - 23Citation
MASIERO, S., 2015. Will the JAM trinity dismantle the PDS? Economic and Political Weekly, 50 (45), pp. 21-23.Publisher
Sameeksha TrustVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Economic and Political Weekly and the definitive published version is available at http://www.epw.in/journal/2015/45/commentary/will-jam-trinity-dismantle-pds.html.ISSN
0012-9976eISSN
2349-8846Language
- en
