Publication

Oct 2012

With the challenge of covering a very large population, India is a unique testing ground for biometric identification technology. Its successes and potential failures will have far-reaching implications for other developing countries looking to create national identity systems and the Indian case offers some important lessons.

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Author Alan Gelb, Julia Clark
Series CGD Briefs
Publisher Center for Global Development (CGD)
Copyright © 2012 Center for Global Development (CGD) This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license.
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