attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting …, optimizing targeting measures will be misleading when the actual goal is to maximize the effect on poverty. …A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations …

In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt … to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data … Indonesia's largest social programs, the Raskin (rice for the poor) and the BLSM (temporary unconditional cash transfers …

coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …'s Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to reduce targeting errors and increase program complementarities …

valuable to policymakers and others concerned with poverty reduction in Bangladesh and elsewhere." from text …

reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …