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; and (ii) how to rank surveyed households. We attemp...

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Main Authors:	Bah, Adama, Bazzi, Samuel, Sumarto, Sudarno, Tobias, Julia
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:	TARGETING PROXY MEANS TEST POVERTY SOCIAL PROTECTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY REGISTRY
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35397

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spelling	okr-10986-353972021-04-23T14:02:21Z 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 TEST POVERTY SOCIAL PROTECTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POVERTY REGISTRY 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. We 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, we 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, we 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. 2021-04-07T20:33:26Z 2021-04-07T20:33:26Z 2019-10 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35397 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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topic	TARGETING PROXY MEANS TEST POVERTY SOCIAL PROTECTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POVERTY REGISTRY
spellingShingle	TARGETING PROXY MEANS TEST POVERTY SOCIAL PROTECTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POVERTY REGISTRY Bah, Adama Bazzi, Samuel Sumarto, Sudarno Tobias, Julia Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in 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. We 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, we 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, we 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.
format	Journal Article
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	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2021
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35397
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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia

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