Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Notten, Geranda
Author-Email: gnotten@uottawa.ca
Author-Workplace-Name: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs,
	 University of Ottawa, and UNU-MERIT / MGSoG  
Title: Measuring performance: does the assessment depend on the poverty proxy?
Abstract: Poverty indicators often disagree about whether a person is poor or not. 
	 Yet, when it comes to assessing whether a programme is successful in 
	 reaching the poor the dominant practice is to use an income poverty 
	 indicator. This paper investigates whether the choice of welfare 
	 indicator influences the pro-poorness assessment of an intervention. 
	 Using the official European Union income and material deprivation 
	 indicators, this paper compares the outcomes of three performance 
	 indicators for three types of income transfers in six European 
	 countries. The analysis indicates that income transfers are assessed as 
	 far more successful when the information from both indicators is 
	 combined. 
Classification-JEL: I32, I38
Keywords: performance, poverty, income, material deprivation, transfers, 
	 European Union, EU-SILC
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2013
Number: 031
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-031.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2013031