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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty: Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia

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dc.contributor.authorBah, Adama
dc.contributor.authorBazzi, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorSumarto, Sudarno
dc.contributor.authorTobias, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-07T20:33:26Z
dc.date.available2021-04-07T20:33:26Z
dc.date.issued2019-10
dc.description.abstractCentralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. There are two key design issues that matter for targeting accuracy: (i) which households to survey for inclusion in the registry; and (ii) how to rank surveyed households. We attempt to identify their relative importance by evaluating Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to provide social assistance to over 25 million households. Linking administrative data with an independent household survey, we find that the UDB system is more progressive than previous, program-specific targeting approaches. However, simulating an alternative targeting system based on enumerating all households, we find a one-third reduction in undercoverage of the poor compared to focusing on households registered in the UDB. Overall, there are large gains in targeting performance from improving the initial registration stage relative to the ranking stage.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/35397
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/35397
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectTARGETING
dc.subjectPROXY MEANS TEST
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectREGISTRY
dc.titleFinding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Povertyen
dc.title.subtitleExploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesiaen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29402 Working paper version (pre-print)en
okr.date.disclosure2021-04-07
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-06T11:12:24.687628Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhx020
okr.journal.nbpages573-97
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryIndonesia
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Services & Transfers to Poor
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.volume33(3)
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