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Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs


Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs

Keywords: poverty targeting, poverty measurement, social protection, antipoverty programs, unconditional cash transfers, refugees, forced displacement, Lebanon.

Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs

By simulating each allocation rule for every household, we directly identify marginal beneficiaries-approximately 35% of the population in our context-whose ...

Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs

The program reduces economic deprivation, with effect sizes ranging from 0.02 to 0.21 standard deviations. There are marked differences in the demographic ...

Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs

The program reduces economic deprivation, with effect sizes ranging from 0.02 to 0.21 standard deviations. There are marked differences in the ...

Geographic impact of social transfer programs on income inequality

The study, published in Social Service Review, shows that federal social insurance programs such as Social Security and the Earned Income ...

Geographic microtargeting of social assistance with high-resolution ...

Many of these antipoverty programs involve some degree of geographic targeting, where aid is prioritized to the poorest regions of the country.

Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting : how much does ...

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously ...

Geographic microtargeting of social assistance with high-resolution ...

Many of these antipoverty programs involve some degree of geographic targeting, where aid is prioritized to the poorest regions of the country. However, policy ...

Social Protection in the Developing World - MIT Economics

The simplest version of characteristic-based targeting is geographic targeting, i.e., target- ing programs to poorer regions. Its main attraction is its ...

A New Look at Old Dilemmas: Revisiting Targeting in Social ...

Prioritizing poorer households in social protection programs often can generate more progress on reducing poverty and inequality and improving ...

Effectiveness of targeting in social protection programs aimed to ...

Why does social protection program need targeting? Coady et al. (2004b; 2004a)discuss several reasons for targeting including maximizing poverty reduction and ...

Social Transfer Programs as Non-Spatially-Targeted Methods of ...

ciated—connection to economic geography is the social welfare system ... The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare.

Targeting Methods for Social Programs

Geographical targeting requires knowledge of the geographical distribution of the incidence, depth or severity of poverty (or other desired indicator).

Designing Social Protection Programs: Using Theory and ...

Other newer, more nuanced, social protection programs aim to address the underlying market failures that may have contributed to a household's persistent state ...

RESEARCH DIRECTIONS ON SOCIAL PROTECTION IN LOW

... poverty targeting on observable characteristics is geographic targeting ... make social assistance programs accessible for all and not poverty-targeted.

8. Targeting - Elgaronline

Geographic targeting is sometimes labelled 'universal', since everyone living in the area receives benefits. In many countries social protection programmes are ...

A hybrid approach to targeting social assistance - ScienceDirect.com

Effectively identifying the poor is critical to the success of many social assistance programs, particularly in developing countries. Proxy means testing (PMT) ...

Geographical targeting (targeting method) | socialprotection.org

Geographical targeting selects different districts or villages or regions – often on the basis of poverty data where poverty is known to be chronic.

PROMOTING INCLUSION THROUGH SOCIAL PROTECTION

IV.2 Model pension income of older adults under poverty-targeted social ... social protection programmes on poverty and inequality reduction can be undone by.

Targeting - GSDRC

This paper reviews empirical evidence on targeting mechanisms from a range of social protection programmes. ... Social protection: Universal and poverty targeting ...