lessons from various approaches to targeting and design of programs. …

examine effects on targeting to poor and SC/ST households of IRDP credit, agricultural extension programs, employment programs …, and budgetary policies. The reservations were associated with improved targeting of the IRDP program, but poorer targeting … employment programs, the net effect of the reservations appears to have worsened targeting to SC/ST and landless households. The …

of 80 West Bengal villages concerning targeting of credit, agricultural input kits, employment programs and fiscal grants … negligible adverse effects on targeting of private goods to the poor within villages, but with lower employment generation out of … levels among the poor were not systematically related to targeting. [BREAD Working Paper No. 105, November 2005] …

effectiveness of targeting. The study also attempts to quantify the factors underlying the allocation of such asset transfers. Data …