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's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to reduce targeting errors and increase program complementarities … coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia … for program complementarities is greater in magnitude than the benefits of receiving a single program. …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760112
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786987
Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518061
Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597504
's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to reduce targeting errors and increase program complementarities … coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia … for program complementarities is greater in magnitude than the benefits of receiving a single program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948642
poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776445
attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting …, optimizing targeting measures will be misleading when the actual goal is to maximize the effect on poverty. …A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523309
poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943793
poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942877