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Way forward

The government should incentivize the ministries and states to:

Invest in first-mile capacity (by improving beneficiary databases).

Deal with middle-middle challenges (by designing incentives for supply chain interest groups to support DBT).

Improve last-mile financial connectivity (by developing the BC and mobile money space).


 

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