The dynamics of poverty targeting
Several recent papers have compared the ability of proxy-means testing (PMT) and community-based targeting (CBT) to identify consumption-poor households. Motivated by the facts that targeted benefits typically reach beneficiaries with a substantial time lag and that transitions into and out of pover...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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March 2023
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Journal of development economics
Year: 2023, Volume: 161, Pages: 1-9 |
| ISSN: | 0304-3878 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.103033 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.103033 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387822001754 
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| Author Notes: | Michael Hillebrecht, Stefan Klonner, Noraogo A. Pacere |
| Summary: | Several recent papers have compared the ability of proxy-means testing (PMT) and community-based targeting (CBT) to identify consumption-poor households. Motivated by the facts that targeted benefits typically reach beneficiaries with a substantial time lag and that transitions into and out of poverty are frequent, we assess PMT’s and CBT’s performance during the years following the targeting exercise. With original data from Burkina Faso, we replicate the finding that PMT outperforms CBT at baseline. But this pattern disappears for households’ poverty status 12 and 30 months later where both methods perform equally well. For real-world welfare programs where benefits typically accrue with a substantial time lag, our results suggest that CBT’s targeting performance is better than commonly thought. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 25.07.2023 Published online: 14 December 2022 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 0304-3878 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.103033 |