The Evolution of Food as Social Assistance: An Overview

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“…Developing countries such as Indonesia, Mexico, Egypt, and Sri Lanka run food subsidy programs with in-kind transfer of grains to beneficiaries and suffer from similar problems such as leakages, inclusion-exclusion errors and errors related to beneficiary identification (Abdalla and Al-Shawarby, 2017;Alderman et al, 2018Alderman et al, , 2017Tilakaratna and Sooriyamudali, 2017;Timmer et al, 2017;APEC, 2017) and are turning toward technology to combat corruption (Wickberg, 2013;Silveira, 2016;Santiso, 2019;Mukherjee, 2015). For instance, Mexico recently launched the first biometric card trial in the state of Sonora for reducing fraud in the disbursement of state benefits (Stephen, 2019;Cuttler , 2019).…”

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Leveraging Digital Technology to Improve Monitoring and Planning in Public Sector Supply Chains: Evidence From India’s Food Security Program

Ganesh,

Deo,

Devalkar

2024

Production and Operations Management

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Governments across the developing world are adopting digital technologies to improve performance of public sector supply chains. However, empirical evidence regarding the impact of these technologies on performance is mixed. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of using Biometric Authentication (BA) devices on the performance of India’s food security program. The program aims to deliver subsidized food grains to nearly 160 million low-income households through approximately 500,000 Fair Price Shops (FPSs). Nearly half of those grains do not reach the beneficiaries and are diverted to the open market for private benefit. We estimate the impact of installing BA devices on reducing diversion in more than 3,300 FPSs in the Indian state of Karnataka between 2013 and 2015 using a difference-in-differences approach. We find that BA devices reduce up to 4% of the current diversion at the last mile. We argue that this relatively low impact is due to the presence of a workaround mechanism which results in imperfect monitoring and validate the decrease in diversion mechanism by estimating differential impact of BA devices. We complement the empirical analysis with a simulation exercise to estimate additional value that can be unlocked by using the BA devices. We find that the value of better replenishment planning using sales and inventory information captured by BA devices can be significant. The value of better planning can be as high as six times the value from reduction in diversion, depending on the pre-intervention levels of demand from genuine beneficiaries and diversion at the FPSs.

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Leveraging Digital Technology to Improve Monitoring and Planning in Public Sector Supply Chains: Evidence From India’s Food Security Program

Ganesh,

Deo,

Devalkar

2024

Production and Operations Management

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From colonialism to international aid: Social protection in former French colonies in sub‐Saharan Africa, 1890–2020

Olié,

Delpy,

Ballet

2024

J of Intl Development

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This article examines social protection pathways in the former French colonies in sub‐Saharan Africa. We identify five steps to understanding the patterns and dynamics of social protection in these countries that provide evidence of its exogenous construction. First, we characterize the main developments in social protection systems and policies from their inception, covering the colonial era to the present, underlining the role of colonial legacy and the global social policy framework. Second, we document the similarity of national social protection trajectories and lack of national ownership of the policy problem markedly that characterizes social protection pathways.

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Food Insecurity and Associated Socioeconomic Factors: Application of Rasch and Binary Logistic Models with Household Survey Data in Three Megacities in Indonesia

Kharisma

Abe

2019

Soc Indic Res

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The Evolution of Food as Social Assistance: An Overview

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Leveraging Digital Technology to Improve Monitoring and Planning in Public Sector Supply Chains: Evidence From India’s Food Security Program

Leveraging Digital Technology to Improve Monitoring and Planning in Public Sector Supply Chains: Evidence From India’s Food Security Program

From colonialism to international aid: Social protection in former French colonies in sub‐Saharan Africa, 1890–2020

Food Insecurity and Associated Socioeconomic Factors: Application of Rasch and Binary Logistic Models with Household Survey Data in Three Megacities in Indonesia

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