Designing Anti-Poverty Programs in Emerging Economies in the 21st Century: Lessons from Indonesia for the World
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Olken, Benjamin
Date Issued
November 2019
Journal
Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
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Informa UK Limited
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Olken, Benjamin A. "Designing Anti-Poverty Programs in Emerging Economies in the 21st Century: Lessons from Indonesia for the World." Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 55, 3 (November 2019): 319-339 © 2019 ANU Indonesia Project
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Abstract
Governments of developing countries around the world have dramatically expanded social protection programs for the poor in recent decades. In doing so, they face a host of challenges in the targeting, design and implementation of these programs. In this paper, I describe the results from more than a decade of collaboration with the Indonesian government to understand how best to tackle these challenges, drawing primarily on evidence from randomised controlled trials. I highlight results that show the advantages of both community-based targeting and self-targeting, the importance of tangible information about beneficiaries’ rights in minimising leakage, and the remarkable impacts of conditional cash transfers in the medium term. I also describe several recent studies that use randomisation at scale to generate policy-relevant evidence.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00074918.2019.1690411
