Targeting : Poor and Vulnerable Households in Indonesia

Indonesia has experienced strong economic growth over the last forty years. At the same time, the proportion of Indonesians living below the poverty line has fallen dramatically. Nonetheless, around 12 percent of Indonesians remain in poverty and a...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Jakarta 2017
Subjects:	ACCESS TO SERVICES ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS BASIC HEALTH BASIC HEALTH SERVICES BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY HOUSEHOLDS CALORIES PER DAY CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM CASH TRANSFERS CHILD MORTALITY CHRONIC POVERTY CHRONICALLY POOR COMMUNITY HEALTH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT CONFLICT CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA CORRUPTION DATA COLLECTION DATA COLLECTION METHODS DEGREE OF FRAGMENTATION DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ECONOMIC GROWTH ENERGY SUBSIDIES ENROLMENT RATES FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FLEXIBILITY FOOD COMMODITIES FOOD PRICES FOOD SECURITY GDP GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING GOOD GOVERNANCE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HEALTH INSURANCE HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATION HOUSING HUMAN CAPITAL INCENTIVE COSTS INCOME INEQUALITY LEARNING LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MEANS TESTING MEANS TESTS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NUTRITION PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PERFECT TARGETING PMU POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL SUPPORT POOR POOR CHILDREN POOR COUNTRIES POOR FAMILIES POOR HOUSEHOLD POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAPPING POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY STATUS PRODUCTION SUPPORT PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES PROGRAM COVERAGE PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM IMPACTS PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM OUTCOMES PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL POVERTY SAFETY NET SAFETY NET PROGRAMS SAVINGS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOLING SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL MONITORING SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL SPENDING STATE PENSIONS SUBSISTENCE TARGETING TARGETING COSTS TRANSPARENCY VILLAGE LEVEL VULNERABLE GROUPS VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS WAGES WORKFARE PROGRAMS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/972001468038678922/Targeting-poor-and-vulnerable-households-in-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26700

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Summary:	Indonesia has experienced strong economic growth over the last forty years. At the same time, the proportion of Indonesians living below the poverty line has fallen dramatically. Nonetheless, around 12 percent of Indonesians remain in poverty and another 30 percent remain highly vulnerable to falling into poverty in any given year. In addition, Indonesia has experienced a number of crises in the last two decades, and such shocks are likely to continue in the future in an increasingly integrated global economy. Over the last fifteen years the Government has been developing social assistance programs designed to promote the poor out of poverty and protect poor and vulnerable households from both individual and more widespread shocks. The coverage, design and implementation of these programs continue to be improved as social protection in Indonesia matures, but a number of issues remain. One of the most important, and difficult, is how these programs can accurately target households who need those most. The challenge is to develop a targeting approach which includes most of the poor and vulnerable while minimizing leakage to the rich. At the same time, the system must be feasible, affordable, and accepted and used by all. Furthermore, identifying which households are poor is a difficult task in any developing country, but is particularly so in Indonesia, which has a very large population, a high degree of geographic dispersion, decentralization of much budgetary and operational governance, and frequent entry and exit of households into and from poverty. This evidence-based report builds in part on innovative research done collaboratively with the Government of Indonesia. In this respect Indonesia is contributing to the frontier of global knowledge on targeting, while also drawing on the experience of other countries. Moving from a thorough assessment of the current effectiveness of targeting in Indonesia, the report contains practical and detailed recommendations for the future. In particular, a National Targeting System is proposed, which envisages developing a single registry of potential beneficiaries to target social assistance to the right households, resulting in more accurate and cost-effective targeting outcomes, and ultimately stronger program impacts.

Targeting : Poor and Vulnerable Households in Indonesia

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