Picking the poor : indicators for geographic targeting in Peru

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Picking the poor : indicators for geographic targeting in Peru, Volume 1

Author:	Schady, Norbert R.;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2477
Country:	Peru;	Date Stored:	2000/12/15
Document Date:	2000/11/30	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Major Sector:	(Historic)Social Protection
Region:	Latin America & Caribbean	Report Number:	WPS2477
Sub Sectors:	Other Social Protection	SubTopics:	Poverty Monitoring & Analysis; Rural Poverty Reduction; Services & Transfers to Poor; Health Economics & Finance; Safety Nets and Transfers
Volume No:	1

Summary: Geographic targeting is perhaps the most popular mechanism used to direct social programs to the poor in Latin America. The author empirically compares geographic targeting indicators available in Peru. He combines household-level information from the 1994 and 1997 Peru Living Standards Measurement Surveys and district-level information from the 1993 Peru Population and Housing Census. He then conducts a series of simulations that estimate leakage rates; concentration curves; the impact of transfers on poverty as measured by the headcount index, poverty gap, and [poverty] measures of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke family; and nonparametric (kernal) densities when transfers are based on alternative indicators. He concludes that there is substantial potential for geographic targeting in Peru. The differences in outcomes across geographic targeting indicators are small and not statistically significant.


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