Targeting cash transfers on the ‘poorest of the poor’ in the slums: how well did the Kenya’s Older Persons Cash Transfer Programme perform?
Targeting cash transfers on the ‘poorest of the poor’ in the slums: how well did the Kenya’s Older Persons Cash Transfer Programme perform?
In resource poor environments, identifying those most in need of limited available resources is challenging. Kenya’s older persons cash transfer programme (OPCT) targeted at the most poor used a 2-stage targeting process to identify beneficiaries, combining community-based selection with a proxy means-test. This paper investigates whether the process “correctly” identified targeted vulnerable older people in Nairobi’s informal settlements and whether receipt of the OPCT resulted in an improvement in perceived financial wellbeing. Regression results show that individuals with greater need were covered under the OPCT. Using propensity score matching, the paper evidences that the OPCT improved subjective financial wellbeing among beneficiaries.
Aging, Kenya, basic needs, cash transfer, targeting
Chepngeno-Langat, Gloria
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Van Der Wielen, Nele
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Falkingham, Jane
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Evandrou, Maria
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Chepngeno-Langat, Gloria
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Van Der Wielen, Nele
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Falkingham, Jane
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Chepngeno-Langat, Gloria, Van Der Wielen, Nele, Falkingham, Jane and Evandrou, Maria
(2021)
Targeting cash transfers on the ‘poorest of the poor’ in the slums: how well did the Kenya’s Older Persons Cash Transfer Programme perform?
Journal of Aging & Social Policy.
(doi:10.1080/08959420.2021.1926197).
Abstract
In resource poor environments, identifying those most in need of limited available resources is challenging. Kenya’s older persons cash transfer programme (OPCT) targeted at the most poor used a 2-stage targeting process to identify beneficiaries, combining community-based selection with a proxy means-test. This paper investigates whether the process “correctly” identified targeted vulnerable older people in Nairobi’s informal settlements and whether receipt of the OPCT resulted in an improvement in perceived financial wellbeing. Regression results show that individuals with greater need were covered under the OPCT. Using propensity score matching, the paper evidences that the OPCT improved subjective financial wellbeing among beneficiaries.
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Aging, Kenya, basic needs, cash transfer, targeting
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