Reaching the Poor : Cash Transfer Program Targeting in Cameroon

Reaching the Poor : Cash Transfer Program Targeting in Cameroon

Identifying and selecting poor households with efficient targeting methods is essential for effective poverty alleviation programs. This paper assesses the ex-post performance of two popular targeting mechanisms, Proxy Means Testing (PMT) and Community-Based Targeting (CBT), in a pilot cash transfer...

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Main Authors: Stoeffler, Quentin, Mills, Bradford, del Ninno, Carlo
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Subjects:
social assistance targeting
proxy means testing
community-based targeting
cash transfers
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24255

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