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In Light of What They Know : How do Local Leaders Make Targeting Decisions (English)

This paper analyzes how local leaders make targeting decisions in the context of a public workfare program in the Lao People~^!!^s Democratic Republic. The study finds that village heads are progressive in their targeting, prioritizing the poorer households in their villages. The study benchmarks this decentralized selection to the common alternative proxy means test method and finds that village heads are at least as progressive as a proxy ...
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Dervisevic,Ervin; Garz,Seth Aaron Levine; Mannava,Aneesh; Perova,Elizaveta.

In Light of What They Know : How do Local Leaders Make Targeting Decisions (English). Policy Research working paper,no. WPS 9465 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/683561604432151071/In-Light-of-What-They-Know-How-do-Local-Leaders-Make-Targeting-Decisions

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