Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets are used to predict consumption; community targeting, where villagers rank everyone from richest to poorest; and a hybrid. Defining poverty based on PPP$2 per cap...

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Autors principals: Alatas, Vivi, Banerjee, Abhijit
Altres autors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Idioma:en_US
Publicat: American Economic Association 2012
Accés en línia:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74587
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088