The transmigration program in Gorontalo Province plays an important role in poverty reduction. The districts of …-Likert scale. The objectives of this research are: (1) to measure the multidimensional poverty level of transmigrant and … local households, (2) to determine the impact of the transmigration program on poverty reduction and (3) to identify the …

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares …

Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …