Continuous Improvement
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Continuous Improvement

Strengthening Georgia's Targeted Social Assistance Program

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Continuous Improvement

Strengthening Georgia's Targeted Social Assistance Program

About this book

The Targeted Social Assistance Program of Georgia is a last resort social program that is considered a best practice among proxy-means-tested (PMT) programs. It achieves high targeting accuracy for a relatively high level poverty incidence. In 2013, the Government of Georgia embarked in the revision of the program to ensure its continuous effectiveness and to revise some of the parameters of the eligibility formula that could be subject to manipulation. In particular, the government was concerned about the subjective evaluation of social agents and about concealable goods. This report assesses the technical work and the policy actions taken by the Georgian government during the last two years. In this way, it covers the full cycle of the reform of a social assistance program, from establishing the objectives to the design of compensation measures to minimize the number of newly ineligible beneficiaries. In particular, it describes the revision of the PMT formula, the introduction of a scheme of benefits that decreases with the score and an associated program for children, the pre-testing of new formula, and the design of compensation measures. The report also includes a chapter with specific recommendations for Georgia to improve the system of social protection and labor.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. About the Authors
  5. Executive Summary
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Chapter 1 Introduction
  8. Chapter 2 Data and Definitions
  9. Chapter 3 Revision of the PMT Formula
  10. Chapter 4 Revision of the Needs Index
  11. Chapter 5 The New Scheme of TSA Benefits and the Child Benefit Program
  12. Chapter 6 Winners and Losers of the TSA Program
  13. Chapter 7 Winners from the CBP
  14. Chapter 8 From Theory to Practice: Pretesting
  15. Chapter 9 Compensation Measures
  16. Chapter 10 Toward a Comprehensive and Efficient System of Social Protection and Labor
  17. Appendix A Data
  18. Appendix B Subcomponents of the Needs Index
  19. Appendix C Glossary
  20. Boxes
  21. Figures
  22. Maps
  23. Tables