Identification for Development:The Biometrics Revolution
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Keywords
biometric identification; civil registry; voter registration; G2P; financial inclusion; transfers.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H80 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - General
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
- Z18 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Public Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ICT-2013-03-09 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-MFD-2013-03-09 (Microfinance)
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