Assessing the Targeting System in Georgia : Proposed Reform Options
This paper investigates reasons of Georgian targeted social assistance (TSA)’s declining performance and presents a new proxy means test (PMT) model estimated on the most recent household income and expenditure survey data (2018). The paper finds t...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/663231597209859792/Assessing-the-Targeting-System-in-Georgia-Proposed-Reform-Options http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34358 |
| Summary: | This paper investigates reasons of
Georgian targeted social assistance (TSA)’s declining
performance and presents a new proxy means test (PMT) model
estimated on the most recent household income and
expenditure survey data (2018). The paper finds that the
presented updated formula performs better in terms of its
ranking property, coverage of the poor, and benefit
incidence among the poor. The updated PMT formula will
improve the coverage of the poorest decile by raising it
from 69 percent to 77 percent and the benefit incidence in
the poorest decile from 60 to 65 percent. The analysis also
finds that most of the winners are in the poorest quintile
while the losers in the top quintiles. In the medium term,
the paper highlights the potential benefits of moving to a
hybrid targeting approach, whereby reported income is used
as a first-stage exclusion criterion before a PMT assessment. |
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