Finding the Poor vs. Measuring their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia

Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. There are two key design issues that matter for targeting accuracy: (i) which households to survey for inclusion in the registry...

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Main Authors:	Bah, Adama, Bazzi, Samuel, Sumarto, Sudarno, Tobias, Julia
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	TARGETING PROXY-MEANS TESTING SOCIAL PROTECTION POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT REGISTRY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/731751519134047409/Finding-the-poor-vs-measuring-their-poverty-exploring-the-drivers-of-targeting-effectiveness-in-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29402

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spelling	okr-10986-294022021-06-08T14:42:48Z Finding the Poor vs. Measuring their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia Bah, Adama Bazzi, Samuel Sumarto, Sudarno Tobias, Julia TARGETING PROXY-MEANS TESTING SOCIAL PROTECTION POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT REGISTRY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. There are two key design issues that matter for targeting accuracy: (i) which households to survey for inclusion in the registry and (ii) how to rank surveyed households. The authors attempt to identify their relative importance by evaluating Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to provide social assistance to over 25 million households. Linking administrative data with an independent household survey, they find that the UDB system is more progressive than previous, program-specific targeting approaches. However, simulating an alternative targeting system based on enumerating all households, they find a one-third reduction in undercoverage of the poor compared to focusing on households registered in the UDB. Overall, there are large gains in targeting performance from improving the initial registration stage relative to the ranking stage. 2018-02-28T22:11:34Z 2018-02-28T22:11:34Z 2018-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/731751519134047409/Finding-the-poor-vs-measuring-their-poverty-exploring-the-drivers-of-targeting-effectiveness-in-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29402 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8342 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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description	Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. There are two key design issues that matter for targeting accuracy: (i) which households to survey for inclusion in the registry and (ii) how to rank surveyed households. The authors attempt to identify their relative importance by evaluating Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to provide social assistance to over 25 million households. Linking administrative data with an independent household survey, they find that the UDB system is more progressive than previous, program-specific targeting approaches. However, simulating an alternative targeting system based on enumerating all households, they find a one-third reduction in undercoverage of the poor compared to focusing on households registered in the UDB. Overall, there are large gains in targeting performance from improving the initial registration stage relative to the ranking stage.
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author	Bah, Adama Bazzi, Samuel Sumarto, Sudarno Tobias, Julia
author_facet	Bah, Adama Bazzi, Samuel Sumarto, Sudarno Tobias, Julia
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title	Finding the Poor vs. Measuring their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
title_short	Finding the Poor vs. Measuring their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
title_full	Finding the Poor vs. Measuring their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
title_fullStr	Finding the Poor vs. Measuring their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed	Finding the Poor vs. Measuring their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
title_sort	finding the poor vs. measuring their poverty : exploring the drivers of targeting effectiveness in indonesia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/731751519134047409/Finding-the-poor-vs-measuring-their-poverty-exploring-the-drivers-of-targeting-effectiveness-in-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29402
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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia

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