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id	eprints-15672
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
topic	HD Industries. Land use. Labor HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
description	Drawing on a household and village-level community survey of social income, this paper offers a critique of the widespread use of targeting in Indian social policy primarily through the use of the below poverty line card system, to include or exclude groups from access to subsidised goods and sometimes to public works. It argues that targeting is inefficient and inequitable. In India, this situation is largely an outcome of the bureaucratic raj, which has created a vast system of clogged pipes. While successive governments have dismantled state controls and interventions for the private sector, delivery of services, especially to the poor, is still firmly controlled by the same bureaucratic system, with its attendant problems. Given the limitations of targeting, the principle of universalism is worth considering as an alternative.
format	Journal Article
author	Standing, Guy
author_facet	Standing, Guy Jhabvala, Renana
authorStr	Standing, Guy
author_letter	Standing, Guy
author2	Jhabvala, Renana
author2Str	Jhabvala, Renana
title	Targeting to the "poor": Clogged pipes and bureaucratic blinkers
publisher	Sameeksha Trust
publishDate	2010
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/15672/