Administering targeted social programs in Latin America

Grosh, Margaret

doi:10.1596/0-8213-2620-1

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“…Other means-tested criteria were subsequently established to target the poorest, while by 1979 the food subsidy scheme was replaced with a voucher program. The voucher program remained in place for 33 years-way longer than in countries like Zambia that tried, briefly and unsuccessfully, to shift from price subsidies to stamps (Grosh 1994;Suryanarayana 1995).…”

Section: Stylized Evolution Of the Pathways Of The Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, the concentration of PASL and Fidelist in Mexico City did not reduce, and probably aggravated, the urban bias of food subsidies. Finally, in the case of the PASL implemented by Liconsa, operational costs were extremely high, on the order of 28.5 percent (Grosh 1994) to 36.0 percent (World Bank 1991).…”

Section: Box 51 Diconsa and The Rural Food Supply Program (Continued)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?

Alderman¹,

Gentilini²,

Yemtsov³

2017

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Section: Stylized Evolution Of the Pathways Of The Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Box 51 Diconsa and The Rural Food Supply Program (Continued)mentioning

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The 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?

Alderman¹,

Gentilini²,

Yemtsov³

2017

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“…The existing literature, however, largely focuses on the description of individual programs (Coady and Parker, 2004) and comparative analysis tends to cover a single region (Grosh, 1994;Braithwaite et al, 2000), method or intervention (Kakwani and Son, 2006 Battiston et al (2009) incorporate six dimensions into their multidimensional poverty measure. The dimensions are: i) income; ii) children attending school; iii) education of the household head; iv) sanitation; v) water; and vi) shelter.…”

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“…Several studies have analyzed the efficiency of different targeting methodologies (see, for example, Parker, 2004, andGrosh, 1994). Most of these studies, however, have used cross-section data to determine if the admission of a household into a program was adequately performed or not.…”

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Dynamic Consistency of Multidimensional and Income Targeting: An Application for Mexico Using Panel Data Information

Bouillon

Yáñez-Pagans

2011

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Abstract*This paper compares the dynamic consistency of targeting methodologies that use multidimensional welfare indicators with those based on means and proxy means tests using panel data from Mexico. To make these comparisons, an extension of the Alkire and Foster (2008) dual cutoff multidimensional poverty methodology is proposed. This extension provides a relative approach to multidimensional deprivation that ranks individuals according to an aggregate of their relative position in the distribution of a set of welfare attributes or outcomes. The extension gives particular importance to deprivations that affect smaller portions of the population, as these deprivations are especially critical in defining relative multidimensional welfare. The findings, disaggregated by geographical area (urban and rural), suggest that taking into account deprivation in multiple dimensions may lead to more dynamically consistent measures of well-being and thus more dynamically consistent targeting algorithms. JEL Classifications: I32, I38

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“…We will refer to the type of targeting rules used in programs such as Subsidio Unico Familiar (Chile) or Progresa (Mexico) and some others by "Proxy Means Tests" (PMT) (as in some of the literature -see e.g. Grosh (1994) 2 ).…”

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Optimal income support targeting

Wachter¹,

Galiani

2006

Int Tax Public Finan

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This paper considers the practical problem of distributing a fixed budget for poverty alleviation to a population whose poverty status is not directly observable. The solution we propose improves on the techniques that are commonly used in practice by taking both the concavity of the social welfare function and the entire conditional distribution of poverty status into account, and by endogenously determining the optimal transfer levels. We provide an algorithm to calculate the optimal transfers for any population of benefit applicants. Finally, we explain how our method is a generalization of statistical classification techniques and thus provide an intuitive discussion of the defects of currently operational methods. JEL-classification: H2, C4

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Administering targeted social programs in Latin America

Cited by 167 publications

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The 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?

The 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?

Dynamic Consistency of Multidimensional and Income Targeting: An Application for Mexico Using Panel Data Information

Optimal income support targeting

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