Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru

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 verificatio...

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Main Authors:	Karlan, Dean, Thuysbaert, Bram
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
Subjects:	POVERTY TARGETING PARTICIPATORY WEALTH RANKING PROXY MEANS TEST POVERTY INDEX
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34289

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spelling	okr-10986-342892021-05-25T10:54:38Z Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru Karlan, Dean Thuysbaert, Bram POVERTY TARGETING PARTICIPATORY WEALTH RANKING PROXY MEANS TEST POVERTY INDEX 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 by various metrics. They all identify most accurately 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. 2020-08-06T17:10:14Z 2020-08-06T17:10:14Z 2019-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34289 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean Honduras Peru
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description	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 by various metrics. They all identify most accurately 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.
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author	Karlan, Dean Thuysbaert, Bram
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title	Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru
title_short	Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru
title_full	Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru
title_fullStr	Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru
title_full_unstemmed	Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru
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publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru

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