Social protection system coverage (helping more people access government benefits); CC estimates that this is less than one-fifth as valuable as cash transfers
That is surprising, they’ve done a lot of work in and around India where welfare budget utilisation has been infamously poor until only quite recently and where the huge rural population seems to make it particularly hard to get welfare to the poorest who need it most.
I wonder how their economists account for the counterfactual of unused government funds, I’ve seen quite a few calcs where unused welfare funds that go back into the central pot are only discounted by 1⁄4 − 1⁄2, which I still find very unintuitive even given only that the average wealth of a government spending recipient is far higher than that of a recipient of welfare.
I’ve been keeping an eye out for a charity / org in India that is particularly good at increasing access to government welfare so this is relevant for that.
That is surprising, they’ve done a lot of work in and around India where welfare budget utilisation has been infamously poor until only quite recently and where the huge rural population seems to make it particularly hard to get welfare to the poorest who need it most.
I wonder how their economists account for the counterfactual of unused government funds, I’ve seen quite a few calcs where unused welfare funds that go back into the central pot are only discounted by 1⁄4 − 1⁄2, which I still find very unintuitive even given only that the average wealth of a government spending recipient is far higher than that of a recipient of welfare.
I’ve been keeping an eye out for a charity / org in India that is particularly good at increasing access to government welfare so this is relevant for that.