TY  - GEN
KW  - Targeting
KW  -  Community-based Targeting
KW  -  Welfare Programs
KW  -  Poverty
KW  -  Community Wealth Rankings
KW  -  Proxy-means Testing
T3  - Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
Y1  - 2016/11//
A1  - Schleicher, Michael
A1  - Souares, Aurélia
A1  - Pacere, Athanase Narangoro
A1  - Sauerborn, Rainer
A1  - Klonner, Stefan
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22223/
N2  - 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.
CY  - Heidelberg
TI  - Decentralized versus Statistical Targeting of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from Burkina Faso
ID  - heidok22223
AV  - public
EP  - 59
ER  -