How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems?: Relative Efficiency of Proxy Means Test and Household Economy Analysis in Niger

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How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems?: Relative Efficiency of Proxy Means Test and Household Economy Analysis in Niger

dc.contributor.author	Schnitzer, Pascale
dc.date.accessioned	2016-11-18T19:53:19Z
dc.date.available	2016-11-18T19:53:19Z
dc.date.issued	2016-10
dc.description.abstract	Proxy Means Test (PMT) and the Household Economy Analysis (HEA) are widely used methods to target chronically poor households and those suffering from food crises respectively. Using panel data from Niger, this study provides the first empirical evidence on the relative efficiency of these methods in identifying households suffering from permanent or seasonal deprivations. Results show limited overlap between households selected by each method. The PMT performs better in targeting chronically poor households, while HEA performs better in targeting seasonal food insecure households. The study also explores the extent to which these methods can be improved, used and potentially combined to target households as part of ASP systems. Results show that the HEA formula could be further improved to target seasonally food insecure households, including through a regression model estimating food insecurity, and a principal component analysis (PCA) model. Combinations of PMT with methods such as HEA, PCA, or a food insecurity formula may be considered to identify households suffering from chronic poverty and seasonal food insecurity as part of an efficient and scalable ASP system. Harmonizing data collection tools of PMT and HEA users would serve as a crucial building block towards a unified registry and play a key role in improving the efficiency of ASP systems.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198291477561475360/How-to-target-households-in-adaptive-social-protection-systems-relative-efficiency-of-proxy-means-test-and-household-economy-analysis-in-Niger
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/25387
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/25387
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Social Protection and Labor Discussion Paper;No. 1612
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	poverty
dc.subject	cash transfers
dc.subject	proxy means testing
dc.subject	targeting
dc.subject	adaptive social protection
dc.title	How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems?	en
dc.title.subtitle	Relative Efficiency of Proxy Means Test and Household Economy Analysis in Niger	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems?
okr.date.disclosure	2016-10-27
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198291477561475360/How-to-target-households-in-adaptive-social-protection-systems-relative-efficiency-of-proxy-means-test-and-household-economy-analysis-in-Niger
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/25387
okr.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/25387
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okr.identifier.report	109528
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198291477561475360/pdf/109528-WP-P155846-PUBLIC-social-protection-labor-no-1612-1-w.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.country	Niger
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Conditional Cash Transfers
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.unit	Social Protection & Labor AFR W (GSP07)