dc.contributor.author | Devereux, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Masset, Edoardo | |
dc.contributor.author | Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel | |
dc.contributor.author | Samson, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | te Lintelo, Dolf | |
dc.contributor.author | Rivas, Althea-Maria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-22T09:18:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-22T09:18:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-07-20 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978 1 78118 250 5 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/6606 | |
dc.description.abstract | Many methodologies exist for dividing a population into those who are classified as eligible for social transfers and those who are ineligible. Popular targeting mechanisms include means testing, proxy means tests, categorical, geographic, community-based, and self-selection. This paper reviews empirical evidence from a range of social protection programmes on the accuracy of these mechanisms, in terms of minimising four targeting errors: inclusion and exclusion, by eligibility and by poverty. This paper also reviews available evidence on the various costs associated with targeting, not only administrative but also private, social, psycho-social, incentive-based and political costs. Comparisons are difficult, but all mechanisms generate targeting errors and costs. Given the inevitability of trade-offs, there is no ‘best’ mechanism for targeting social transfers. The key determinant of relative accuracy and cost-effectiveness in each case is how well the targeting mechanism is designed and implemented. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Working Paper;460 | |
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dc.rights.uri | http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdf | en |
dc.subject | Social Protection | en |
dc.title | Evaluating the Targeting Effectiveness of Social Transfers: A Literature Review | en |
dc.type | IDS Working Paper | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Rural Futures | en |