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. The method outperforms common targeting methods, such as proxy means tests and the targeting method currently used by …
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enrollment offer an unexplored targeting benefit over UCTs: CCTs target money to households that forgo a discrete amount of child … income. This paper shows that the size of this targeting benefit is directly related to the distribution of parental incomes … variation in transfers to younger siblings to identify income effects. In this setting, the analysis finds that the targeting …
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measures ensure that priority is given to the poorest among the poor while targeting, monitoring and evaluating poverty …
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This paper builds on the existing literature assessing retrospectively the quantitative effects of natural disasters on different dimensions of household welfare, to make progress toward the ex ante identification of households that are vulnerable to poverty due to natural disasters, especially...
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cost based on WTA is substantially lower than actual payments. Simulation of three geographic targeting approaches shows …
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This paper analyzes how local leaders make targeting decisions in the context of a public workfare program in the Lao … People's Democratic Republic. The study finds that village heads are progressive in their targeting, prioritizing the poorer …
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Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …
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This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...
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This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between the incidence of the digital economy and long-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation between national unemployment rates and the incidence of...
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Djibouti is very well placed, as a landing site of undersea fiber optic cables, to benefit from the digital economy. However, the prevalence of a single national telecom operator in the country has stifled service delivery and innovation in the telecom sector. Mobile broadband coverage and...
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