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Cellfare: Delivering Self-Targeted Welfare Using Mobile Phones

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  • Erlend Berg
  • D Rajasekhar
  • R Manjula

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This paper proposes a new form of social welfare: beneficiaries carry out a series of small tasks on their mobile phones, each linked to a small payment. Key advantages over traditional public works, or workfare, are large potential reductions in leakage as well in administrative costs and delays. A basic implementation of the scheme was tested in the field, and participants with experience from a large Indian public-works programme favourably compared the proposed scheme to the existing one. There are potential challenges related to automation.

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  • Erlend Berg & D Rajasekhar & R Manjula, 2017. "Cellfare: Delivering Self-Targeted Welfare Using Mobile Phones," CSAE Working Paper Series 2017-14, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    • Handle: RePEc:csa:wpaper:2017-14
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