Can Community-based Targeting Effectively Select Poorer Beneficiaries for a Large-scale Program? Insights from the LASED Project

An analysis of the Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project (LASED) in Cambodia suggests that the project was highly successful in identifying "poor" beneficiaries. In this brief we look into the community-based targeti...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/987741561704219943/Can-Community-based-Targeting-Effectively-Select-Poorer-Beneficiaries-for-a-Large-scale-Program-Insights-from-the-LASED-Project
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32051
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Summary:An analysis of the Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project (LASED) in Cambodia suggests that the project was highly successful in identifying "poor" beneficiaries. In this brief we look into the community-based targeting mechanism used in LASED to understand what design factors contributed to it`s success.