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| Coady, David P.. |
| Using both national-sample and program-level census survey data, we evaluate the distributional power of Mexico's Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) transfers using the so-called distributional characteristic. These transfers are targeted both geographically at marginal localities and at poor households within these localities. Transfers are also conditioned on household members attending school and health clinics. We show that the program has a relatively high distributional power compared to a range of alternatives considered. Although geographic targeting has a relatively large effect on the distributional power of the program, the demographic structure of transfers is more important than household targeting. However, the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16428 |
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| Coady, David P.; Perez, Raul; Vera-Illamas, Hadid. |
| One of the common criticisms of poverty alleviation programs is that the high share of administrative (nontransfer) costs substantially reduces the programs’ impact on poverty. But very little empirical evidence exists on program costs. For example, a recent extensive international review of targeted poverty alleviation programs in developing countries could find data on costs for only 32 out of the 111 program reviewed. Even then, the numbers available were not always comparable. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of the cost structure of a program recently introduced in Mexico, called PROGRESA. Our analysis shows how cost data can be used as the basis for an evaluation of the cost efficiency of anti-poverty programs. It cautions, however, that... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Cost efficiency; Poverty alleviation; Human capital; Mexico; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59284 |
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| Caldes, Natalia; Coady, David P.; Maluccio, John A.. |
| A common criticism of antipoverty programs is that the high share of administrative (nontransfer) costs substantially reduces their effectiveness in alleviating poverty. Yet there is surprisingly little hard empirical evidence on such programs' costs. A recent international review of targeted poverty alleviation programs in less developed countries found cost information--which was rarely comparable between studies--for fewer than one-third of the programs examined. Improved information and a better understanding of the costs of such programs are crucial for effective policymaking. This study proposes and implements a methodology for a comparative analysis of the level and structure of costs of three similar poverty alleviation programs in Latin America,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16419 |
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| Coady, David P.; Harris, Rebecca Lee. |
| We set out a general equilibrium model for the evaluation of a domestically financed transfer program, which helps to combine the results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data. We separate the indirect welfare impact into three components: (1) the redistribution effect arising from the need to finance programs, (2) the reallocative effect arising from the transfer of resources between households with different “tax propensities,” and (3) the distortionary effect arising from the need to use distortionary finance instruments. We show how all these effects can be usefully subsumed within one parameter, namely, the cost of public funds. Using a Mexican cash transfer program as an illustration, we use the approach to... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16412 |
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| Skoufias, Emmanuel; Coady, David P.. |
| We evaluate the size of the welfare losses from using alternative “imperfect” welfare indicators as substitutes for the conventionally preferred consumption indicator. We find that whereas the undercoverage and leakage welfare indices always suggest substantial losses, and the poverty indices suggest substantial losses for the worst performing indices, our preferred welfare index based on standard welfare theory suggests much smaller welfare losses. We also find that we cannot reject the hypothesis that the welfare losses associated with using the better performing alternative indicators are zero. In the case of our preferred welfare index, this reflects the fact that most of the targeting errors, i.e., exclusion and inclusion errors, are highly... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16448 |
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| Coady, David P.; Grosh, Margaret; Hoddinott, John. |
| This paper addresses the contested issue of the efficacy of targeting interventions in developing countries using a newly constructed comprehensive database of 111 targeted antipoverty interventions in 47 countries. While the median program transfers 25 percent more to the target group than would be the case with a universal allocation, more than a quarter of targeted programs are regressive. Countries with higher income or governance measures, and countries with better measures for voice do better at directing benefits toward poorer members of the population. Interventions that use means testing, geographic targeting, and self-selection based on a work requirement are all associated with an increased share of benefits going to the bottom two quintiles.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16434 |
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| Coady, David P.; Parker, Susan W.. |
| Using data that enables us to distinguish between the different components of program participation (i.e., knowledge, application, and acceptance), we investigate the determinants of household behavior and program implementation in a social safety-net program that combines administrative and self-selection targeting methods. High undercoverage of eligible households primarily reflects lack of knowledge and binding budget constraints in poor areas. High leakage to ineligible households reflects the combination of their high levels of knowledge, application, and acceptance. Lowering undercoverage will require greater program awareness among the poor living in nonpoor areas and this is likely to come at the expense of substantial leakage to the nonpoor unless... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Means testing; Targeting performance; Mexico; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59593 |
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| Coady, David P.; Skoufias, Emmanuel. |
| We show how the so-called distributional characteristic of a policy instrument can be additively decomposed into two components: one that captures the targeting efficiency of the instrument, the other its redistributive efficiency. Using these measures, we provide an interpretation of the commonly used leakage and undercoverage rates (and other indices based on these concepts) within standard welfare theory. Essentially, one can interpret such indices as special (and restrictive) cases of the targeting efficiency index. As well as failing to capture the relative redistributive efficiencies of policy instruments, they also implicitly assume a set of value judgments consistent only with the commonly used poverty gap. For illustrative purposes, we present an... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16470 |
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