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A J-PAL study in Jharkhand on the use of Aadhaar-based biometric authentication (ABBA) in PDS delivery has found that leakages were reduced but at the cost of genuine beneficiaries getting excluded.

A new study has found that job-seekers with previous work experience who use reference letters in their applications stand to increase their employment prospects by more than 50%.

The government claims to have saved Rs 90,000 crore by way of eliminating subsidy/benefit leakages by using Aadhaar, as the resulting identification system has helped identify ghost and ineligible beneficiaries.

A study has revealed that most job seekers do not have contactable references listed on their CVs, and less than 5% include a reference letter with their applications.

Iqbal Dhaliwal, global executive director of J-PAL shares important lessons he has learned over years of working with governments.

Almost 90% of ration cards deemed fake and deleted by the Jharkhand government between 2016 and 2018 actually belonged to existing, valid households, according to a new study by economists affiliated to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...