Assessing the Targeting Performance of Social Programs: Cape Verde

Angel-Urdinola, Diego and Quentin Wodon ()

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Abstract: Budget constraints faced by governments in developing countries imply that the targeting performance of public subsidies and social programs (whether the subsidies are provided in cash or in kind) is important for reducing poverty. In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the main existing social programs in Cape Verde and assess whether various targeting systems (including proxy means testing and geographic targeting) could help to improve targeting performance.

Keywords: Poverty; social programs; targeting; Cape Verde; benefit incidence; geographic targeting; proxy means testing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H22 I38 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01
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