How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems? : Relative Efficiency of Proxy Means Test and Household Economy Analysis in Niger

How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems? : Relative Efficiency of Proxy Means Test and Household Economy Analysis in Niger

Proxy Means Test (PMT) and the Household Economy Analysis (HEA) are widely used methods to target chronically poor households and those suffering from food crises respectively. Using panel data from Niger, this study provides the first empirical ev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schnitzer, Pascale
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
poverty
cash transfers
proxy means testing
targeting
adaptive social protection
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198291477561475360/How-to-target-households-in-adaptive-social-protection-systems-relative-efficiency-of-proxy-means-test-and-household-economy-analysis-in-Niger
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25387

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198291477561475360/How-to-target-households-in-adaptive-social-protection-systems-relative-efficiency-of-proxy-means-test-and-household-economy-analysis-in-Niger
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25387

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