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    Targeting Transfers: Innovative Solutions to Familiar Problems

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    01/04/1999
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    Devereux, Stephen
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    Summaries The case for targeting cash or in?kind transfers to the poor – that it maximises cost?effectiveness and equitable allocation of scarce public resources – is partially offset by the administrative, social and political costs that targeting introduces. This article examines practical applications of three alternative targeting mechanisms: self?targeting, individual assessment, and group characteristics. It finds that current international ‘conventional wisdom’ – which favours, for example, introducing gender quotas to public works projects and minimising administration costs to maximise transfers to beneficiaries – often leads to perverse outcomes, which have motivated innovative modifications in specific local contexts.
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/9122
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    Devereux, S. (1999) Targeting Transfers: Innovative Solutions to Familiar Problems. IDS Bulletin 30(2): 61-74
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    10.1111/j.1759-5436.1999.mp30002007.x
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    IDS Bulletin Vol. 30 Nos. 2
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