Continuous Improvement: Strengthening Georgia's Targeted Social Assistance Program

by Anastasia Mshvidobadze, Tinatin Baum, Josefina Posadas

Targeted Social Assistance of Georgia is a last-resort social program that is considered a best practice among programs based on proxy means testing (PMT). It achieves high targeting accuracy for a relatively high level of poverty incidence. In 2013, the government of Georgia embarked on the revision of this program to ensure its continued effectiveness and to revise some of the parameters of the eligibility formula that could be subject to manipulation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464809003
• ISBN13: 9781464809002
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"