Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru

Arbeitspapier

For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a verification household survey, relative to two proxy means tests (the Progress out of Poverty Index and a housing index), in Honduras and Peru. The methods we examine perform similarly to one another by various metrics. They all target most accurately in the cases of the poorest and the wealthiest households but perform with mixed results among households in the middle of the distribution. Ultimately, given similar performance, the analysis suggests that costs should be the driving consideration in choosing across methods.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper ; No. 1033

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Development Planning and Policy: General
• Thema: poverty targeting ; participatory wealth rankings ; proxy means tests ; Armutsbekämpfung ; Zielgruppe ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Honduras ; Peru

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Karlan, Dean ; Thuysbaert, Bram
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Yale University, Economic Growth Center
• (wo): New Haven, CT
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/98210
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ