Targeting Social Transfer Programmes: Comparing Design and Implementation Errors Across Alternative Mechanisms

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Alex Hurrell and Stephen Devereux

No wp-2014-040, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Identifying the poorest for selection into social transfer programmes is a major challenge facing programme implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialed three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about which approach is most effective at minimizing inclusion and exclusion errors. We conclude that community-based targeting is the most accurate of the three approaches, followed by categorical targeting by age and household dependency ratio. However, targeting performance is strongly affected by implementation capacity and modalities.

Keywords: Government policy (Poor); Poverty measurement; Methodology (Poverty); Welfare economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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