In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt … to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data … Indonesia's largest social programs, the Raskin (rice for the poor) and the BLSM (temporary unconditional cash transfers …

experience of the Asian Financial Crisis of the 1990s heightened awareness of vulnerability to poverty and the role of government …

Indonesia, where such policies are rapidly expanding, this paper discusses two programmes most relevant to the poor - the rice … paper concludes that Indonesia is still looking for a welfare regime that is compatible with its political …

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares …