Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance: A New Look at Old Dilemmas

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1814-1

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Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance: A New Look at Old Dilemmas

dc.contributor.author	Leite, Phillippe
dc.contributor.author	Grosh, Margaret
dc.contributor.author	Wai-Poi, Matthew
dc.contributor.author	Tesliuc, Emil
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-29T15:21:03Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-29T15:21:03Z
dc.date.issued	2022-03-31
dc.description.abstract	Targeting is a commonly used, but much debated, policy within global social assistance practice. This book examines the well- known dilemmas in light of the growing body of experience, new implementation capacities, and the potential to bring new data and data science to bear. Chapter 1 presents a series of essays on the factors that shape choices around why or whether or how narrowly/broadly to target different parts of social assistance. Chapter 2 updates the global empirics around the outcomes and costs of focusing benefits on the poor or vulnerable. Chapter 3 illustrates the options and choices that must be made in moving from an abstract vision of focusing resources on the poor or vulnerable to more specific concepts and implementable definitions and procedures, and how the many choices should be informed by values, empirics and context. Chapter 4 provides a brief treatment of delivery systems and processes showing their importance to distributional outcomes and suggesting the many facets with room for improvement. Chapter 5 discusses the choice between targeting methods, how differences in purposes and contexts shape those. Chapter 6 summarizes and comprehensively updates the know-how with respect to the data and inference used by the different household-specific targeting methods. Chapter 7 contains a primer on measurement issues, going much deeper than usual and explaining how better measurement can lead to clearer understanding of targeting issues. Chapter 8 explores machine learning algorithms for household-specific mechanisms for eligibility determination.	en
dc.identifier	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099300006162240907/p1648760df4c480270bd0b02288943f413e
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-1814-1
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-1814-1
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/37228
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Human Development Perspectives;
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 REDUCTION
dc.subject	TAX AUTHORITY
dc.subject	FISCAL POLICY
dc.subject	FISCAL FRAMEWORK
dc.title	Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance	en
dc.title.subtitle	A New Look at Old Dilemmas	en
dc.type	Book	en
dc.type	Livre	fr
dc.type	Libro	es
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-1814-1
okr.identifier.report	172648
okr.language.supported	en
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Access of Poor to Social Services
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Moving Out Of Poverty
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Taxation & Subsidies
okr.unit	Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice (HSJDR)
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