Bloeck, Martin Caruso; Galiani, Sebastián; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-40
Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to carry out means testing income-support programs, and countries in … the region have therefore mostly relied on proxy means testing mechanisms. This paper studies the relative effectiveness … and informal sectors. Although the means testing mechanism allows for a more pro-poor design of transfers, it distorts …