Heterogeneity in target populations and locations: Reflections on the challenges for poverty targeting

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

Chapter 9 in Boosting growth to end hunger by 2025: The role of social protection, 2018, pp 121-134 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: The author of Chapter 9 draws on in-depth knowledge of a set of recent and active social protection programs; implemented in eastern Africa to discuss three challenges inherent to poverty-targeting that constrain the achievement of program objectives. These challenges are the difficulty of identifying the poorest among the poor, heterogeneity in household characteristics within a target population that is assumed to be relatively homogeneous, and provision of “individual/household†transfers in diverse social and cultural contexts.

Keywords: project management; economic growth; programmes; social protection; social policies; hunger; social welfare; rural development; food security; poverty; project evaluation; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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