Political connections and elite capture in a poverty alleviation programme in India

Panda, S. (2014) Political connections and elite capture in a poverty alleviation programme in India. The Journal of Development Studies. pp. 1-16.

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Abstract

Political elite capture in public welfare programmes is rife in the low-income countries. Analysing a nationally- representative Indian household survey dataset, we examine the political connections hypothesis and find that a household connected to a local political executive (somebody close or as a family member) vis-à-vis not connected significantly increases the probability of its obtaining an important poverty-alleviating entitlement; that is, a below-poverty-line ration card in all three contexts: national, rural, and urban. This ubiquity of political elite capture at the local government level has guiding policy implications for the beneficiary identification process in the future

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Subjects: Social Sciences
Divisions: General
Depositing User: Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2014 08:40
Last Modified: 15 Oct 2014 08:40
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.947281
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/13495

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