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100 _aPanda, Sitakanta
245 _aPolitical connections and elite capture in a poverty alleviation programme in India
260 _c2015
300 _ap.50-65.
362 _aJan
520 _aPolitical 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-�-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. - Reproduce
650 _aRuling class - India
650 _aPoverty - India
650 _aPoverty
773 _aJournal of Development Studies
909 _a109093
999 _c109088
_d109088