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Principles and Approaches to Targeting: With Reference to the Indonesian Social Safety Net Programs

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Sudarno Sumarto (SMERU Research Institute)
Asep Suryahadi (SMERU Research Institute)

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The potential benefits of accurate targeting are substantial because public expenditures can be concentrated to the needy, thereby saving money and improving program efficiency. However, targeting also entails administrative costs associated with identifying, reaching, and monitoring potential beneficiaries. In addition, there are also potential costs in the form of disincentive costs, stigma costs, and political economy costs. The experience of the recent Indonesian social safety net programs shows that targeting was one of the most difficult problems in the implementation of these programs. As a result, the programs were plagued by the twin problems of undercoverage and leakage.

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Paper provided by East Asian Bureau of Economic Research in its series Development Economics Working Papers with number 103.

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Date of creation: Jul 2001
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Keywords: poverty targeting; safety net programs; Indonesia; program evaluation;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare
I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
O18 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses

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  1. Besley, Timothy & Kanbur, Ravi, 1990. "The principles of targeting," Policy Research Working Paper Series 385, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  2. Ferreira, Francisco & Prennushi, Giovanna & Ravallion, Martin, 1999. "Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2160, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  3. Bigman, David & Fofack, Hippolyte, 2000. "Geographical Targeting for Poverty Alleviation: An Introduction to the Special Issue," World Bank Economic Review, Oxford University Press, vol. 14(1), pages 129-45, January.
  4. Asep Suryahadi & Yusuf Suharso & Sudarno Sumarto, 1999. "Coverage and Targeting in the Indonesian Social Safety Net Programs - Evidence from 100 Village Survey," Development Economics Working Papers 118, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  5. Sumarto, Sudarno & Suryahadi, Asep & Pritchett, Lant, 2000. "Safety nets and safety ropes - who benefited from two Indonesian crisis programs - the"poor"or the"shocked"?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2436, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Anne Daly & George Fane, 2002. "Anti-Poverty Programs in Indonesia," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 309-329, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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