Administering Targeted Social Programs in Latin America: From Platitudes toPractice

摘要

The study focuses on the targeting outcomes and the administrative costs, optionsand requirements of targeting mechanisms in a variety of social programs in Latin America. It is designed to shed much-needed light on how administrative considerations affect whether and how to target social programs. In order to maintain this focus, the study leaves aside many topics that are important and that are often the dominant themes in discussions of targeting and social programs. The study supplies information on only a few dimensions of the complex issue of which services to provide and whether and how to target them. In concentrating on the administrative issues involved in the implementation of alternate targeting mechanisms, the study is able to cover a large variety of programs.