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> What is the alternative for providing direct benefits without lossage? Accept the lossage. No system is foolproof, follow the Pareto principle and that's it.

> What is the alternative for providing direct benefits without lossage? Accept the lossage. No system is foolproof, follow the Pareto principle and that's it. Unfortunately that one is hard to sell to voters, especially as "we're going to eradicate fraud" is a very popular platform of conservative/authoritarian politicians that just use fraud as an excuse to develop repressive systems.

alephnerd 2y ago
Pre-Aadhaar, 40-50% of overall welfare system distributions was lost due to corruption at the last mile [0] At the end of the day, India's model of development is based on much more statist Japan, South Korea, and Singapore's, as most advising, developmental grants, and FDI in India is furnished by these 3 countries. While India may speak English, it's administrative system and legal system is closer to Malaysia and Singapore's in jurisprudence and central control, and as such, administrative leadership in India tends to look at Singapore as a model - heck, Narendra Modi was mentored by Lee Kuan Yew when he was CM of Gujarat. Aadhaar itself was developed in coordination with Singapore, and is directly based on Malaysia's MyKad and Singapore's NRIC. Aadhaar has had disastrous pitfalls with rollout, but it is complete at this point - especially with COVID acting as a forcing function. [0] - https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/176312/1/icrier-wp-294.pdf https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/176312/1/icrier-wp-2...
- jace 2y ago
  And what is the post-Aadhaar loss? Nobody knows, because there's no accounting. We're still in the "don't allow critical examination of Aadhaar" era of this regime. Also, I got my COVID-19 vaccination without Aadhaar. It wasn't asked anywhere. I'm not sure what you're referring to as a connection between them.

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> What is the alternative for providing direct benefits without lossage? Accept the lossage. No system is foolproof, follow the Pareto principle and that's it.

by mschuster91 2y ago

alephnerd 2y ago
Pre-Aadhaar, 40-50% of overall welfare system distributions was lost due to corruption at the last mile [0] At the end of the day, India's model of development is based on much more statist Japan, South Korea, and Singapore's, as most advising, developmental grants, and FDI in India is furnished by these 3 countries. While India may speak English, it's administrative system and legal system is closer to Malaysia and Singapore's in jurisprudence and central control, and as such, administrative leadership in India tends to look at Singapore as a model - heck, Narendra Modi was mentored by Lee Kuan Yew when he was CM of Gujarat. Aadhaar itself was developed in coordination with Singapore, and is directly based on Malaysia's MyKad and Singapore's NRIC. Aadhaar has had disastrous pitfalls with rollout, but it is complete at this point - especially with COVID acting as a forcing function. [0] - https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/176312/1/icrier-wp-294.pdf https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/176312/1/icrier-wp-2...
- jace 2y ago
  And what is the post-Aadhaar loss? Nobody knows, because there's no accounting. We're still in the "don't allow critical examination of Aadhaar" era of this regime. Also, I got my COVID-19 vaccination without Aadhaar. It wasn't asked anywhere. I'm not sure what you're referring to as a connection between them.