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...
Main Authors: | Bah, Adama, Bazzi, Samuel, Sumarto, Sudarno, Tobias, Julia |
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Format: | Journal Article |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2021
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35397 |
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