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A Proxy Means Test for Sri Lanka (Record no. 32825)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field	30125
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field	The World Bank
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field	20181114101822.0
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007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION
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024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code	10.1596/30125
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number	(The World Bank)30125
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Sebastian, Ashwini.
245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	A Proxy Means Test for Sri Lanka
Medium	[electronic resource] :
Remainder of title	A Proxy Means Test for Sri Lanka /
Statement of responsibility, etc	Ashwini Sebastian.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc	Washington, D.C. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc	The World Bank,
Date of publication, distribution, etc	2018.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement	Other papers.
520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	This paper intends to inform the effort of the Sri Lankan government to reform the targeting efficacy of its social protection programs, in particular, Samurdhi, which currently distributes benefits based on self-reported income. We develop a Proxy Means Test (PMT) for Sri Lanka based on the Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2016 and evaluate its performance for targeting benefits of Samurdhi. The paper considers a range of models and policy parameters that could be applied depending on data availability and country preferences. The results indicate that switching to a PMT could considerably improve the targeting performance of Samurdhi and would significantly improve the poverty impact of the program. We find that the performance of the proposed PMT model suffers when the coefficients are estimated from samples smaller than 1,000 households. However, we do not find a similar loss of model performance when the model is estimated from seasonal data, provided the sample size is sufficiently large. The model we propose could be applied to the targeting of a variety of safety net programs after validating and refining our model by conducting a pilot survey.
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Inequality
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Living Standards
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Poverty
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Poverty Reduction
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Social Protections and Labor
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Newhouse, David.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Sebastian, Ashwini.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Shivakumaran, Shivapragasam.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Silwal, Ani Rudra.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Walker, Thomas.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Yoshida, Nobuo.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title	Other papers.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title	World Bank e-Library.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier	<a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/30125">http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/30125</a>

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