The Unaccounted Costs of Targeting- Indian Express Op-ed piece

Stressing on the imposition of cost on the recipients of targeted social policies, a former World Bank official Martin Ravallion, draws attention to the unaccounted costs of targeting, and argues that while targeting may be a means to alleviate poverty, it is not an end unto itself.

What is opposed by him is not the non-universal nature of the mechanism per se, but the homogeneous lens used by policymakers while framing targeted polices.

http://m.indianexpress.com/news/the-unaccounted-costs-of-targeting/1157291/