Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better … targeted than traditional "state" programs, or that the targeting of state programs improved after 2014. Households receiving …, changes in the scale, composition or targeting of these programs, in clientelistic effectiveness of traditional state programs …