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Article

Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village

by
Anugu Amarender Reddy
1,*,
Anindita Sarkar
2 and
Yumiko Onishi
3
1
Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad 500059, India
2
Department of Geography, Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
3
IC Net Limited, Delhi 110091, India
*
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Land 2022, 11(7), 1030; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11071030
Submission received: 12 June 2022 / Revised: 25 June 2022 / Accepted: 29 June 2022 / Published: 7 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smallholder Farming under External Shocks: New Perspectives and Solutions for Future Crises)
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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.
Keywords: development programmes; welfare schemes; beneficiary; targeted schemes; socially disadvantaged groups development programmes; welfare schemes; beneficiary; targeted schemes; socially disadvantaged groups

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Reddy, A.A.; Sarkar, A.; Onishi, Y. Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village. Land 2022, 11, 1030. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11071030

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Reddy AA, Sarkar A, Onishi Y. Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village. Land. 2022; 11(7):1030. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11071030

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Reddy, Anugu Amarender, Anindita Sarkar, and Yumiko Onishi. 2022. "Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village" Land 11, no. 7: 1030. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11071030

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Reddy, A. A., Sarkar, A., & Onishi, Y. (2022). Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village. Land, 11(7), 1030. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11071030

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