Targeting social transfer programmes: Comparing design and implementation errors across alternative mechanisms
Identifying the poorest for selection into social transfer programmes is a major challenge facing programme implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialled three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about which approach is most effective at minimizing inclusion and exclusion errors. We conclude that community-based targeting is the most accurate of the three approaches, followed by categorical targeting by age and household dependency ratio. However, targeting performance is strongly affected by implementation capacity and modalities. Through a simulation exercise we show that a proxy means test would have performed better than single categorical indicators.
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2014
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Authors: | Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel ; Hurrell, Alex ; Devereux, Stephen |
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Helsinki : The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) |
Subject: | social transfers | errors | Kenya |
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freely available
Series: | WIDER Working Paper ; 2014/040 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
ISBN: | 978-92-9230-761-5 |
Other identifiers: | 10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2014/761-5 [DOI] 778258815 [GVK] hdl:10419/96329 [Handle] RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp2014-040 [RePEc] |
Classification: | I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; D60 - Welfare Economics. General |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343240