Are Technology-enabled Cash Transfers Really 'Direct'?

Vivek, S and Narayanan, Rajendran and Chakraborty, Dipanjan and Veeraraghavan, Rajesh and Vardhan, Vibhore (2018) Are Technology-enabled Cash Transfers Really 'Direct'? Economic and Political Weekly, 53 (30). pp. 58-64. ISSN 2349-8846

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Abstract

In an era increasingly dominated by the digital, technology-enabled solutions have come to be viewed as a one-stop solution to the age-old administrative woes of corruption and inefficiency. Evidence from a detailed case study of payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in a region of Telangana shows that technological solutions in the domain of government-to-citizen cash transfers are far from perfect. The mechanisms of techno-utopianism suffer from many of the same flaws as the ones they replaced and, in some cases, they have introduced new flaws.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Vivek, S and Narayanan, Rajendran and Chakraborty, Dipanjan and Veeraraghavan, Rajesh and Vardhan, Vibhore
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Public administration Technology
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Arts and Sciences
Full Text Status:	Restricted
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7497
Publisher URL:	https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/30/special-article...

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