Articles: Cash Transfers

• 2013
  • Cash for vote? (Reetika Khera, Frontline, 9-22 March 2013)
  • Right hand, left hand (Ila Patnaik, The Indian Express, 5 February 2013)
  • One more step towards food security (Himanshu, Live Mint, 31 January 2013)
  • Who prefers cash transfers? (Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Business Standard, 26 January 2013)
  • How TN is demolishing the centre's cash transfer argument (G Pramod Kumar, FirstPost, 17 January 2013)
  • Claiming entitlements in a world of direct cash transfers (Suvojit Chattopadhyay, Mint, 17 January 2013)
  • Inside the Direct Cash Transfer debate (IBNLive, 17 January 2013)
  • Cash or kind, it's all the same (Milind Murugkar, Hindustan Times, 16 January 2013)
  • Inside the Direct Cash Transfer Debate (Udit Misra, Forbes India, 12 January 2013)
  • 'Cash transfers can help make India less unequal, but are not a magic bullet' (interview with Amartya Sen) (Sandeep Joshi, The Hindu, 10 January 2013)
  • Cash transfers: Food for thought (Uttam Gupta, Business Line, 8 January 2013)
  • Will the 'Direct Cash Transfer' scheme benefit the common man? (MG Warrier, Moneylife, 7 January 2013)
  • Ashwani Kumar: Is cash transfer a 'Congress calling card'? (Ashwani Kumar, Business Standard, 2 January 2013)
  • SEWA model shows cash transfers work (Guy Standing, The Hindu, 2 January 2013)
  • Cash transfers - a long term solution? (Live Mint, 1 January 2013)
  • Aadhar card yani dhoke ka aadhar (Sachin Kumar Jain, Web Dunia Hindi, January)
  • Cash transfer policy: Anaaj nahi, nakad khaye (Sachin Kumar Jain, Web Dunia Hindi)
  • Sarkari Nazariya, Sabsay Bada Rupaiya - Page 1, Page 2 (Bhasha Singh, Outlook, January 2013)
• 2012
  • Khatarnak hai ration ke badle nakad rashi ka mantra (Sachin Kumar Jain, Panchayatnama, 17-23 December 2012)
  • How to make cash transfers work (Guy Standing, The Indian Express, 17 December 2012)
  • Why we simply can't hurry into Direct Cash Transfers (Firstpost.Economy, 27 November 2012)
  • Direct cash transfer: Is UPA's flagship programme a gamechanger? (NDTV, 26 November 2012)
  • Money where your mouth is (The Economist, 10 November 2012)
  • It's time for 'Ameeri rekha' (Kathyayini Chamaraj, Deccan Herald, 11 September 2012)
  • Scent of a scheme (Jayati Ghosh, Frontline, 29 Dec - 11 Jan)
  • Dash for cash (Jyotika Sood, Down to Earth, 31 Dec)
  • India: Why we Oppose the Rush to Cash Transfers and UID - concerned citizens statement (26 December 2012)
    • Cash Transfers and UID (Economic and Political Weekly, 5 Jan)
    • Dissent on Cash Transfers and UID (Pratirodh, 29 Dec)
    • Let us not rush into cash transfers (The Hindu Business Line, 27 Dec)
    • People oppose the rush for cash (Down to Earth, 26 Dec)
  • Will cash transfers check migration? (Richard Mahapatra, Business Standard, 26 Dec)
  • Critics of the cash transfers project are all barking up the wrong tree (Arvind Panagariya, The Economic Times, 26 Dec)
  • Cash transfers are misguided (Praful Bidwai, China Daily, 25 Dec)
  • Sonia's Gambit (Devangshu Datta, Open Magazine, 15 Dec)
  • Oil That Never Caught Fire (Pragya Singh, Outlook, 10 December 2012)
  • Socialism, Cash Down (Uttam Sengupta and Arindam Mukherjee, Outlook, 10 December 2012)
  • Freshly Minted Cheer (Saba Naqvi, Outlook, 10 December 2012)
  • Long road ahead for cash transfers (Reetika Khera, The Financial Express, 4 December 2012)
  • Cong rush for UID-based cash subsidy is like legal voter bribery (R Jagannathan, Firstpost, 19 October 2012)
  • Farewell to welfare? - Public Distribution System and the Cash Transfer Scheme (A note by Perspectives)
  • Neither effective nor equitable (Bharat Bhatti and Madhulika Khanna, The Hindu, 4 December 2012)
  • Money where your mouth is (The Economist, 10 November 2012)
  • UPA makes its case for cash transfers (Remya Nair and Surabhi Agarwal, LiveMint, 24 Feb 2012)
  • Reforming or replacing the Public Distribution System with Cash Transfers? (Peter Svedberg, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 47, No. 7, 18 Feb 2012)
  • Old diet, new recipe (Sebastien P.T, Business Today, 5 August 2012)
• 2011
  • The PDS is not failing or ailing (Ria Singh Sawhney, The Tribune, 7 September 2011)
  • A case for uniform and universal system (Swathi Meenakshi, The Tribune, 7 September 2011)
  • The PDS in Rural Orissa: Against the Grain? (Ankita Aggarwal, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46, No. 36, 3-9 September 2011)
  • No substitute for PDS (Kuber Nag, The Hindu, 3 September 2011)
  • The PDS learning curve (Jijo Jose, Down to Earth, 18 August 2011)
  • The case against cash transfers (Sachin Kumar Jain, Infochange Agriculture, 8 September 2011)
  • Ration ke badle nakad ki maang kyon? (Sachin Kumar Jain, Naidunia, 23 August 2011)
  • Khatarnak hain ration ke badle nakad rashi ka mantra (Sachin Kumar Jain, August 2011)  [Download font]
  • Conditional cash transfers and health (K.S Jacob, The Hindu, 29 June 2011)
• Conditional Cash Transfers as a Tool of Social Policy (Francesca Bastagl, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• Brazil’s Bolsa Família: A Review (Fabio Veras Soares, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• Mexico’s Targeted and Conditional Transfers: Between Oportunidades and Rights (Pablo Yanes, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• The Shift to Cash Transfers: Running Better But on the Wrong Road? (Devesh Kapur, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• Cash Transfers as the Silver Bullet for Poverty Reduction: A Sceptical Note (Jayati Ghosh, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• A Case for Reframing the Cash Transfer Debate in India (Sudha Narayanan, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• Mantra of cash transfers (Editorial, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• The cash mantra (Jean Dreze, The Indian Express, 11 May 2011
• Cash delusions (Frontline, Parful Bidwai, Volume 28, Issue 08, 09-22 April 2011)
• The flip side of cash subsidies (Himanshu, Mint, 29 March 2011)
• A dark lining to the shine (Neelabh Mishra, Outlook, 28 March 2011)
• Understanding a Welfare State and the issue of cash transfer (Soheb Lokhandwala, 16 March 2011, The Global Digest)
• A complement, not a substitute (Jean Dreze, Down to Earth, 15 March 2011)
• Putting cash transfer in its place (Himanshu, Mint, March 15, 2011)
• The siren song of cash transfers (Jayati Ghosh, The Hindu, 2 March 2011)
• Food or cash: The subsidy conundrum (Himanshu, Mint, 1 March 2011)
• Various articles on the Right to Food in India (Budget Track, January 2011)
• Kind to Cash (Richard Mahapatra, Down to Earth, 15 February 2011)
• 2010
  • The case for cash (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 8 December 2010)
  • Unique facility, or recipe for trouble? (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 25 November 2010)

Last updated: 15 April 2013