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Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: the Mahallas in Uzbekistan

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Aline Coudouel
Sheila Marnie
John Micklewright

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Falling output and living standards have pushed countries in transition from the socialist system to re-consider how best to target public resources on those in need. The paper investigates the workings of a new social assistance benefit in Uzbekistan, the largest of the former Soviet Central Asian republics, administered by community organizations, the Mahallas. Data used from a 1995 household survey to assess the scheme's success in targeting the most vulnerable households, using a variety of indicators including income, durable goods ownership, agricultural assets, employment status, and the anthropometric status of children. The separate probabilities of knowledge of the scheme, of application for benefit, and of award are modelled.

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Paper provided by UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in its series Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series with number iopeps98/4.

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Date of creation: 1998
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Keywords: economic transition; living standards; social indicators; social policy;

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P27 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies - - - Performance and Prospects
P36 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Consumer Economics; Health, Education, Welfare, and Poverty

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  1. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. MONEE project, 1998. "Education for All?," Regional Monitoring Report remore98/3, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. [Downloadable!]
  2. Micklewright, John, 1996. "Introduction," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 3(3), pages 229-231, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Duclos, Jean-Yves, 1995. "Modelling the take-up of state support," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(3), pages 391-415, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Suraiya Ismail & John Micklewright, 1997. "Living Standards and Public Policy in Central Asia: What Can Be Learned from Child Anthropometry?," Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series iopeps97/5, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Klugman, Jeni & Micklewright, John & Redmond, Gerry, 2002. "Poverty in the Transition: Social Expenditures and the Working-Age Poor," CEPR Discussion Papers 3389, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Micklewright, John & Coudouel, Aline & Marnie, Sheila, 2004. "Targeting and Self-Targeting in a New Social Assistance Scheme," IZA Discussion Papers 1112, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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