… was intended to provide choices of retail outlets to poor beneficiaries for collecting …
empowering the beneficiaries was very important […]. I think the major contribution of CORE PDS …

… much of the PDS literature that purports to address issues of equity or social justice is that,
ideologically, they are steeped in deficit notions of “fixing” broken, poor children by merely …

… that might enable cardholders to report poor performance without reprisal. Introducing trans…
the core pds in Chhattisgarh - on increasing efficiency, reducing corruption and empowering …

… The common goal in the case of the PDS is to provide food for the poor and reduce hunger
… of the CORE-PDS. The main objectives of CORE-PDS were (a) to empower beneficiaries by …

… people to make claims and make ICDS and PDS more universal; (2) ensure that potential …
empower the poor, not just the bureaucrats; and (3) empower citizens to fix the ICDS and PDS …

… a dominant issue for the poorest and housing is a growing need in urban areas Because
the poor cannot be painted with a single brush, the Empowerment Line offers a more nuanced …

… , to transfer a few hundred rupees subsidy per month to a poor family? Looking at the large
… PDS beneficiaries as customers of our service. We try to control them rather than empower …

… empowerment was crucial for the future of developing countries. The goal of empowering the
poor… , which specifically address the needs of poor and vulnerable groups in the population …

… In some cases CBOs play a crucial role in strategies for empowering the urban poor. They
may be united into citywide, national and even international federations (Batliwala, 2002; …