Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Improving Targeting in Ghana: A Brief Overview -- Part I: Synthesis of the Study -- Chapter 2: How Well Targeted Are Ghana's Social Programs? -- Introduction -- Objective, Limits, and Structure of the Study -- Programs and Subsidies Well (or Potentially Well) Targeted to the Poor -- Programs and Subsidies Relatively Evenly Distributed in the Population as a Whole -- Programs and Subsidies Benefiting the Poor but Only to a Limited Extent -- Programs and Subsidies Benefiting Mostly the Nonpoor -- Choosing Indicators for Geographic Targeting -- Comparing Geographic Targeting in Levels and in Changes Due to Shocks -- Comparing Geographic, Proxy Means-Testing, and Community-Based Targeting -- Using Targeting Mechanisms for Non-State Providers of Services and Programs -- Policy Recommendations -- Part II: Analysis by Social Program -- Chapter 3: Principles of Targeting-A Brief Review -- Benefits of Targeting -- Costs of Targeting -- Measuring Targeting Performance -- Classifying Targeting Methods -- Chapter 4: A New Poverty Map for Ghana -- Objective of the Poverty Map -- Methodology for the Construction of the Poverty Map -- Reliability of the Poverty Map Estimates -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: A Food Insecurity Map for Ghana -- Estimation of a Food Insecurity Map Based on Caloric Intake -- Reliability of the Food Insecurity Map Estimates -- Alternative Measures of Food Security -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Geographic Impact of Higher Food Prices in Ghana -- Impact of Higher Food Prices on Poverty -- Geographic Impact of the Increase in Food Prices -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Targeting Free School Uniforms in Ghana -- Private Education Costs and School Uniforms -- Targeting Performance Simulations for School Uniforms -- Conclusion.

Chapter 8: Simulating Conditional Cash Transfers for Education in Ghana -- Conditional Cash Transfers: Mexico's Experience -- Simulating Conditional Cash Transfers for Ghana -- Comparing Geographic Targeting and Proxy Means-Testing at the Regional Level -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Tax Cuts for Rice and Fertilizer Subsidies in Ghana -- Who Benefits from Tax Cuts on Rice and Other Imported Foods? -- Who Benefits from Subsidies for Fertilizers? -- Comparing Rice Tax Cuts and Fertilizer Subsidies Using CD Curves -- Medium Term Effects: Comparing Rice Tax Cuts with Agricultural Productivity Gains -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Electricity Subsidies in Ghana -- Issues with Maintaining Electricity Residential Consumption Subsidies -- Do the Poor Benefit from Inverted Block Tariff Structures? -- Connection Subsidies as an Alternative to Consumption Subsidies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Benefit Incidence of Public Education Spending in Ghana -- Principles of Benefit Incidence Analysis -- Data on Public Spending for Education and Estimation of Unit Costs of Schooling -- Results from the Benefit Incidence Analysis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12: Targeting Performance of School Lunches in Ghana -- School Lunches: Outlays in Ghana and Lessons from International Experience -- District-Level Targeting Performance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13: National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana -- Description of the National Health Insurance Scheme -- Benefit Incidence of NHIS Subsidies in 2005-06 -- Benefit Incidence of NHIS in 2007 and 2008 -- Assessment of the Indigent Provision in the NHIS -- Conclusion -- Chapter 14: Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty -- Design and Targeting Mechanism of LEAP -- Targeting Performance of LEAP -- Scope for an Expansion of LEAP -- Cost Effectiveness of LEAP.

Using a Common Targeting Mechanism for Multiple Programs: Chile's Experience -- Conclusion -- Chapter 15: Ghana's National Youth Employment Program -- Youth Unemployment and Underemployment -- Brief Description of NYEP -- Assessment of the Likely Targeting Performance of NYEP -- Assessment of the Likely Poverty Impact of NYEP -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16: Simulating Labor Intensive Public Works in Ghana -- Labor Intensive Public Works: A Brief Review -- Assessment of the Likely Targeting Performance and Poverty Impact of Public Works -- Comparison with Other Countries -- Conclusion -- References -- Back Cover.

This study provides a 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 targetd programs (such as LEAP, the indigent exemption under the 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. The purpose of this introductory chapter is to provide a brief synthesis of the key findings and messages from the study.

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