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The Distributional Consequences of Group Procurement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial of a Food Security Program in Rural India / Paul Christian.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Christian, Paul.
- Series:
- Other papers
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture.
- Consumers.
- Consumption.
- Control Groups.
- Cooking.
- Corruption.
- Credit.
- Debt.
- Expenditures.
- Food Consumption.
- Food Security.
- Food Subsidies.
- Grains.
- Inflation.
- Interest Rates.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Maize.
- Measurement.
- Participation Rates.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Monitoring & analysis.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rice.
- Social Protections & Assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Staple Foods.
- Surplus.
- Surveys.
- Wheat.
- Local Subjects:
- Agriculture.
- Consumers.
- Consumption.
- Control Groups.
- Cooking.
- Corruption.
- Credit.
- Debt.
- Expenditures.
- Food Consumption.
- Food Security.
- Food Subsidies.
- Grains.
- Inflation.
- Interest Rates.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Maize.
- Measurement.
- Participation Rates.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Monitoring & analysis.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rice.
- Social Protections & Assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Staple Foods.
- Surplus.
- Surveys.
- Wheat.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 pages)
- Other Title:
- Distributional Consequences of Group Procurement
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Public transfer programs that allow beneficiaries to choose the transferred good may be more efficient, but the poorest beneficiaries may not participate if the good chosen is too costly. A model shows that program targeting and consumption impacts are tied to selected quality of the provided good. Evidence from a randomized trial in rural India in which groups of beneficiaries choose the variety of rice to be offered as a subsidized loan confirms that choosing lower cost goods self-targets the program towards the poorest beneficiaries. Consumption impacts are biggest for wealthiest households and may be negative for moderately poor households.
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