Multidimensional Targeting: Identifying Beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
OPHI Research in Progress
This paper applies the Alkire Foster method for multidimensional measurement as a targeting mechanism for conditional cash transfers (CCTs), and finds that it significantly improves selection of households with children who are most deprived in dimensions relevant to CCTs.
Citation: Azevedo, V. M. R. and Robles, M. (2010). ‘Multidimensional targeting: Identifying beneficiaries of conditional cash transfer programs’, OPHI Research in Progress 20a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This paper is also published in the Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 447–475.
Keywords:
conditional transfers, targeting, multidimensional poverty, ex-ante evaluation
Region:
Latin America and the Caribbean
Country:
Mexico