title: Decentralized versus Statistical Targeting of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from Burkina Faso
creator: Schleicher, Michael
creator: Souares, Aurélia
creator: Pacere, Athanase Narangoro
creator: Sauerborn, Rainer
creator: Klonner, Stefan
subject: 330
subject: 330 Economics
description: Targeting of national anti-poverty programs in low-income countries commonly relies on statistical procedures involving household-level survey data, while small-scale poverty-alleviation programs often employ so-called community-based targeting, where village communities themselves identify program beneficiaries. Combining data from community-based targeting exercises in north-western Burkina Faso with household-level survey data, we compare the targeting accuracy of community-based targeting with several statistical procedures when the program's purpose is to target consumption-poor households. We find that the community-based assessment targets a similar share of consumption-poor households as the best-performing statistical procedures which are not calibrated with household-level consumption data. Community-based targeting performs relatively better in urban than in rural areas and is not at a disadvantage in larger or more heterogeneous communities. In a cost-benefit analysis we find that in our sub-Saharan African context community-based targeting is far more cost-effective than any statistical procedure for common amounts of welfare program benefits.
date: 2016-11
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22223/1/schleicher%20souares%20pacere%20Sauerborn%20klonner%202016_dp623.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00022223
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-222238
identifier:   Schleicher, Michael ; Souares, Aurélia ; Pacere, Athanase Narangoro ; Sauerborn, Rainer ; Klonner, Stefan  (2016) Decentralized versus Statistical Targeting of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from Burkina Faso.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22223/
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language: eng