How Relevant Is Targeting to the Success of an Antipoverty Program?

How Relevant Is Targeting to the Success of an Antipoverty Program?

Policy-oriented discussions often assume that "better targeting" implies larger impacts on poverty or more cost-effective interventions for fighting poverty. The literature on the economics of targeting warns against that assumption, but evidence has been scarce and the lessons from the li...

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Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Format: Journal Article
Published: World Bank 2012
Subjects:
administrative costs, cash transfers, economic growth, household income, income, inequality, new poor, political economy, political economy of targeting, political support, poor, poverty gap index, poverty measures, poverty reduction, public spending, social security, squared poverty gap index, targeted transfers, targeting, targeting mechanisms
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4429

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