Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona as a Safety Net: Evidence from Murshidabad District of West Bengal

Arghya Kusum Mukherjee and Amit Kundu
Additional contact information
Arghya Kusum Mukherjee: Assistant Professor in Economics, Srikrishna College, Nadia, West Bengal, India.

Bangladesh Development Studies, 2012, vol. 35, issue 1, 79-103

Abstract: This paper assesses the role of Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona (SGSY), a government sponsored microfinance programme, as a safety net. The initial survey was conducted in 2006 in Murshidabad District of West Bengal, India while the same households were surveyed again in 2008. The results show that the programme is well designed to restrict the decline of transient poor or to uplift the chronic poor from below the poverty line. However, there are serious lacunas in implementing the programme. As a result, the SGSY programme as a safety net has failed to fully deliver anticipated benefits to the programme participants. The picture becomes worse if one measures the targeting efficiency of the programme. It is revealed that the “programme” suffers from both inclusion and exclusion errors. The study, however, suffers from the conventional errors of sampling and the limited time frame may not be adequate to measure the full efficacy of the programme.

Keywords: Microfinance; Safety net; Social security; Welfare programme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 H55 I38 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://bids.org.bd/uploads/publication/BDS/35/35-1/05_Mukherjee&Kundu.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:badest:0534

Access Statistics for this article

Bangladesh Development Studies is currently edited by Dr. Binayak Sen

More articles in Bangladesh Development Studies from Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) E-17, Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Meftaur Rahman, Cheif Publication Officer, BIDS ().