Targeting Health Programs to Reach the Poor
In principle, the efficiency of poverty-oriented social programs can be increased dramatically through “targeting” an infelicitous term applied to efforts to focus development programs more directly on the poor. By one widely-cited estimate, a set of “perfectly targeted”...
Main Author: | Gwatkin, Davidson R |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/152331520426041781/Targeting-health-programs-to-reach-the-poor http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29585 |
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