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Is targeting deprived areas an effective means to reach poor people?
— an assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes | | Author(s) | Rebecca Tunstall, Ruth Lupton |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2003 |
| Pages | 37 pp (CASEpaper 70) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/Case |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Deprived areas ; Urban renewal ; Public expenditure ; Social policy ; Indicators. |
| Annotation | Area-based programmes have long been a feature of urban policy in the UK. One rationale is that they are an effective means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviews the different results produced by these indices. It examines the effectiveness of the current Index of Multiple Deprivation in targeting the poor, demonstrating that area targeting using the IMD 2000 is a more complex way of reaching the poor than has been claimed by opponents of area-based targeting in the past. However, it is more effective in reaching some sub-groups, particularly children, than others, and it is relatively inefficient. There is a trade-off between efficiency and completeness. The use of area targeting should depend on the type of intervention, the costs and benefits of producing complex targeting mechanisms, and the particular balance between completeness and efficiency in each case. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030714508 B |
| Classmark | W6: RN: RRJ: WN8: TM2: 3RI |
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