Focused Targeting against Poverty Evidence from Tunisia

Christophe Muller and Sami Bibi ()

No 602, IDEP Working Papers from Institut d'economie publique (IDEP), Marseille, France

Abstract: This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable correlates and on estimation methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ÔfocusedÕ transfer schemes that improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. The impact of these schemes on the welfare of the poor is also much stronger than the current food subsidies system in Tunisia. Finally, the obtained levels of undercoverage of the poor is so low that Ôproxy-meansÕ focused transfer schemes becomes a realistic alternative to price subsidies, likely to avoid social unrest.

Keywords: Poverty; Targeting; Transfers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D63 H53 I32 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2006-04, Revised 2006-04
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Working Paper: Focused Targeting against Poverty Evidence from Tunisia (2007)
Working Paper: FOCUSED TARGETING AGAINST POVERTY EVIDENCE FROM TUNISIA (2006)
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