Continuous Improvement

Tinatin Baum, Anastasia Mshvidobadze and Josefina Posadas

No 24812 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The Targeted Social Assistance Program of Georgia is a last resort social program that is considered a best practice among proxy-means-tested (PMT) programs. It achieves high targeting accuracy for a relatively high level poverty incidence. In 2013, the Government of Georgia embarked in the revision of the program to ensure its continuous effectiveness and to revise some of the parameters of the eligibility formula that could be subject to manipulation. In particular, the government was concerned about the subjective evaluation of social agents and about concealable goods. This report assesses the technical work and the policy actions taken by the Georgian government during the last two years. In this way, it covers the full cycle of the reform of a social assistance program, from establishing the objectives to the design of compensation measures to minimize the number of newly ineligible beneficiaries. In particular, it describes the revision of the PMT formula, the introduction of a scheme of benefits that decreases with the score and an associated program for children, the pre-testing of new formula, and the design of compensation measures. The report also includes a chapter with specific recommendations for Georgia to improve the system of social protection and labor.

Keywords: Gender-Gender and Public Expenditures Health; Nutrition and Population-Early Child and Children's Health Poverty Reduction-Living Standards Social Protections and Labor-Social Protections & Assistance Social Protections and Labor-Pensions & Retirement Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4648-0900-2
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