Publication: Reaching the Poor and Vulnerable in Myanmar: Lessons from a Social Protection and Poverty Reduction Perspective
Date
2015-07-07
ISSN
Published
2015-07-07
Author(s)
Dutta, Puja Vasudeva
Okamura, Yuko
Abstract
Several government and development
partner programs employ different approaches to ensure the
inclusion of poor and vulnerable areas and people in
Myanmar’s development. Buildingon this experience, this note
aims to identify feasible options to effectively reach these
groups, as government programs expand. Depending on
program-specific choices about geographic focus
andindividual, household eligibility, identifying poor and
vulnerable areas and people in Myanmar can become more
evidence-based, effective, and systematic, as better data
become available and administrative systems develop. While
targeting is currently done by individual programs, there
can be important economies of scale in sharing and
developing these systems in a coordinated manner so as to
support multiple programs.
Citation
“Dutta, Puja Vasudeva; Okamura, Yuko. 2015. Reaching the Poor and Vulnerable in Myanmar : Lessons from a Social Protection and Poverty Reduction Perspective. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/22329 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”