Designing Anti-Poverty Programs in Emerging Economies in the 21st Century
Lessons from Indonesia for the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8415759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin A Olken, Benjamin Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-339 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4918 • E-ISSN: 1472-7234 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00074918.2019.1690411 |
| OpenAlex | W2990778500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 24 |
Governments of developing countries around the world have dramatically expanded social protection programs for the poor in recent decades. In doing so, they face a host of challenges in the targeting, design and implementation of these programs. In this paper, I describe the results from more than a decade of collaboration with the Indonesian government to understand how best to tackle these challenges, drawing primarily on evidence from randomised controlled trials. I highlight results that show the advantages of both community-based targeting and self-targeting, the importance of tangible information about beneficiaries’ rights in minimising leakage, and the remarkable impacts of conditional cash transfers in the medium term. I also describe several recent studies that use randomisation at scale to generate policy-relevant evidence
Business · Cash transfers · Conditional cash transfer · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Emerging markets · Face (sociological concept) · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Poverty · Public economics · Social protection · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Finance · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
The short‐term impacts of a schooling conditional cash transfer program on the sexual behavior of young women
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient
The Short-term Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers to the Poor
Reducing Crime and Violence
Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment
Targeting the Poor
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA′s Control Randomized Experiment
Conditional, unconditional and everything in between
Corruption and the costs of redistribution
Cash, food, or vouchers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador
School subsidies for the poor
Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment
Self-Targeting
Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers
Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |