Ghana : Improving the Targeting of Social Programs

World Bank

Ghana : Improving the Targeting of Social Programs

2011

World Bank

This study, a draft of which was shared with the Government of Ghana in November 2009, provides a basic diagnostic of the benefit incidence and targeting performance of a large number of social programs in Ghana. Both broad-based programs (such as spending for education and health, and subsidies for food, oil-related products, and electricity) as well as targeted programs (such as Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty, or LEAP, the indigent exemption under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), school lunches and uniforms, or fertilizer subsidies) are considered. In addition, the study provides tools and recommendations for better targeting of those programs in the future. The tools include new maps and data sets for geographic targeting according to poverty and food security, as well as ways to implement proxy means-testing. This executive summary provides a brief synthesis of the key findings and messages from the study.

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agricultural inputs agricultural sector cap cash transfers data collection economic growth extreme poverty farmers food crops food insecurity food prices food security gross domestic product health care health insurance health services household surveys human capital immunodeficiency income malnutrition migration mortality ngo poverty reduction pregnant women public health public works sanitation savings school feeding social indicators social security social services social workers targeting unemployment wages workers

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Intervention; Primary schools; National poverty; Secondary schools; Inequality; Public spending; National poverty line; Poor districts; Gdp; Political economy; Social programs; Crowding out; Poverty gap; Rural; Poor households; Poor living; Poor families; Cas; Impact on poverty; Poor individuals; Sample size; Poverty mapping; Beneficiaries; Postnatal care; Corrective measures; Livelihood; Poverty measures; Transfer programs; Incidence analysis; Monthly allowances; Administrative costs; Poverty incidence; Food policy; Caloric intake; Poverty headcount; Poor areas; Human development; Poor; Economic shocks; Poverty reduction programs; Poverty map; Program beneficiaries; Welfare indicators; Targeting mechanisms; Targeted transfers; Poverty rates; Poverty assessment; Food items; Employment status; Poor children; Conflict; Squared poverty gap; Poverty reduction impact; Service delivery; Safety nets; Household survey; Food price; Sam; Program impacts; Poverty maps; Simulations; Self targeting; Geographic targeting; Interventions; Psu; Household survey data; Political support; Rural banks

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2011

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