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An Improved Means-Testing Formula for Better Targeting

Оценка нуждаемости при адресной социальнОй поддержке

Dmitry Bychkov
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Yelena I. Andreeva

Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, 2020, vol. 5, 112-129

Abstract: In Russia, means testing is used to identify low-income households and measure poverty headcount as well as to establish the eligibility of the applicants to targeted social assistance. The current means-testing formula, however, is restricted to comparing the per capita income with the cost of the so-called minimum consumer basket or the standard subsistence income

Keywords: poverty rate; targeted social assistance; neediness criteria; low-income families; means testing; household survey. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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