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dc.contributor.authorDevereux, Stephenen
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-24T13:54:54Z
dc.date.available2016-02-24T13:54:54Z
dc.date.issued01/04/1999en
dc.identifier.citationDevereux, S. (1999) Targeting Transfers: Innovative Solutions to Familiar Problems. IDS Bulletin 30(2): 61-74en
dc.identifier.issn1759-5436en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/9122
dc.description.abstractSummaries 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.en
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dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin Vol. 30 Nos. 2en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.titleTargeting Transfers: Innovative Solutions to Familiar Problemsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.rights.holder© 1999 Institue of Development Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1759-5436.1999.mp30002007.xen


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