Targeting social safety nets using proxy means tests: Evidence from Egypt’s Takaful and Karama program

Sikandra Kurdi (), Clemens Breisinger (), Hagar ElDidi, Hoda El-Enbaby, Daniel Gilligan () and Naureen Karachiwalla

Chapter 10 in Boosting growth to end hunger by 2025: The role of social protection, 2018, pp 135-153 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Chapter 10 uses Egypt as a case study to examine the effectiveness of proxy means test (PMT) targeting. Targeting effectiveness is defined in terms of the ability of the program to enroll beneficiaries from the lowest two quintiles of the expenditure distribution. The authors also consider the social costs of implementing PMT in a context where administrative capacity to explain the targeting mechanism to the public is imperfect.

Keywords: project management; economic growth; programmes; social protection; social policies; hunger; social welfare; rural development; food security; cash transfers; poverty; resilience; project evaluation; Egypt; Africa; Northern Africa; Middle East (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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