Picking the Poor : Indicators for Geographic Targeting in Peru

Schady, Norbert R.

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: BENEFICIARIES;    CHRONICALLY POOR;    DATA REQUIREMENTS;    ECONOMIC REVIEW;    ECONOMICS;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2477
RP-ID  :  WPS2477

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Geographic targeting is perhaps the mostpopular mechanism used to direct social programs to the poorin Latin America. The author empirically compares geographictargeting indicators available in Peru. He combineshousehold-level information from the 1994 and 1997 PeruLiving Standards Measurement Surveys and district-levelinformation from the 1993 Peru Population and HousingCensus. He then conducts a series of simulations thatestimate leakage rates; concentration curves; the impact oftransfers on poverty as measured by the headcount index,poverty gap, and [poverty] measures of theFoster-Greer-Thorbecke family; and nonparametric (kernal)densities when transfers are based on alternativeindicators. He concludes that there is substantial potentialfor geographic targeting in Peru. The differences inoutcomes across geographic targeting indicators are smalland not statistically significant.