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India: Cash for the poor, no strings attached

India aims to convert its massive welfare system from subsidies to cash. Here's why that isn't all good news.

Indian residents from the state of Rajasthan protesting a government plan that would transform India's corruption-ridden welfare system by replacing subsidies with direct cash transfers, New Delhi, Dec. 13, 2012.

Sajjad Hussain

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