Spatial Fairness Index : Measuring How Projects Reach Their Intended Beneficiaries
Portfolio Footprints compare sub-national data on World Bank portfolio allocations with indicators of need, including poverty. Such analyses allow a better understanding of the spatial distribution of Bank investments and whether these investments...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198291578515222882/Spatial-Fairness-Index-Measuring-How-Projects-Reach-their-Intended-Beneficiaries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33172 |
| Summary: | Portfolio Footprints compare
sub-national data on World Bank portfolio allocations with
indicators of need, including poverty. Such analyses allow a
better understanding of the spatial distribution of Bank
investments and whether these investments are reaching their
intended beneficiaries. In this note we present the Spatial
Fairness Index (SFI), which provides a summary indicator of
the inequality in projects’ investments with respect to a
fair allocation benchmark. We present an application of this
Index in the context of the World Bank portfolio in
Bangladesh. We highlight some of the SFI’s main uses: to
compare across sectors, projects and time, as well as to
inform project design. |
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