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FIND ASPIRE AT WWW.WORLDBANK.ORG/ASPIRE

ASPIRE DATA SOURCES

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Administrative program level data:  Official government reports /website  Directly provided by government official through country dialogue with WB   Published WB country reports Information collected by local consultants from government when official data are not available 2.

Nationally representative household surveys:  LSMS  HH income expenditure/budget surveys  Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICs)  Welfare Monitoring Surveys  Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILCs)  LFS

VALIDATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS PRIMARY DATA WITH KEY INDICATO RS=>PRE LIMINARY RESULTS UNDER STAND COUNT RY’S SP SYSTEM S COMPARE WITH OFFICIAL GOVERNM ENT SOURCES AND REPORTS CONTRAST WITH EXISTING INTERNATI ONAL DATABASE S CROSS TIME CONSISTE NCY CHECKS VALIDATE WITH COUNTRY TEAMS: VALIDATE WITH GOVERNM ENTS:

PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION

ASPIRE CLASSIFICATION OF SPL PROGRAMS

SA LM SI

•Social assistance •Labor Market Programs (active and passive) •Social Insurance (contributory)

EXAMPLES BENCHMARKS

MOST OF THE POPULATION IN NEED RECEIVE NO SPL TRANSFERS 11 3 4 25 6 2 12 4 18 10 18 22 42 43 34 29 86 68 49 41 38 30 Sub-Saharan Africa South Asia No transfer East Asia Middle East North Africa Only Social Assistance Latin America Only Social Insurance Easter Europe and Central Asia

GLOBAL COVERAGE OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 SOCIAL ASSISTANCE COVERAGE OF POOREST QUINTILE OF POPULATION Low income Years: 2008 -2012 Lower Middle Income Upper Middle Income High Income

GLOBAL COVERAGE OF POOREST HOUSEHOLDS BY SA TYPES

14% 11% 10% 8% 6% 4% 3% In kind Cash transfer Other Public works Years: 2000--2012 CCT School feeding Social pension

ADEQUACY OF SA BENEFITS

ADEQUACY OF TRANSFERS VARIES BY COUNTRY SOCIAL PENSIONS ARE THE MOST GENEROUS Bangladesh Nepal Armenia Thailand El Salvador Pakistan Dominican Republic Egypt, Arab Rep.

Average CCT (12) Average CT (26) Colombia Chile Peru Argentina Moldova Average allowances (19) Mexico Ecuador Jordan Average Social Pension (15) Croatia Belarus Romania Albania Brazil Between 2008 -2012 0 5 5 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 13 15 17 17 20 20 21 22 23 23 24 25 27 29 10 15 20 25 30 34 35 40 44 45 50

COMBINING PERFORMANCE WITH COUNTRY CONTEXT INDICATORS Coverage as % of total population 19 2 2 1 1 7 4 11 5 3 9 3 Tot Q1 Honduras Contributory old age pension Q5 Tot Q1 Mexico Q5 Non-contributory old age pension Coverage as % of elderly population 34% 8% Honduras 22% 36% Children (0-14) Youth (15-24) Working age (26 59) Elderly (60+) 23,7 53,5 Mexico 10% 42% 29% 19% Children (0-14) Youth (15-24) Working age (26 59) Elderly (60+) Honduras Mexico Non-contributory old age pension

WHERE ARE WE?

 Now in the Portal : Performance indicators based on HH surveys for 112 developing countries between 1998-2012:     “Performance” indicators (by program category, quintiles of welfare, urban-rural) “Country context” indicators (by gender, age groups, urban-rural) Full documentation of main variables and program classification Include links to IHSN through common survey ID  Ongoing work to harmonize program level administrative data on expenditures and number of beneficiaries for 40 countries (incomplete data on 144 countries)  Data collection ongoing in 14 countries (Africa and Latin America)  ADB and ECLAC

WHAT’S NEXT?

 External portal updated twice a year   January 2015  Consolidated estimates of existing indicators  Indicators updates July 2015  Spending indicators  Indicators updates  State of Safety Nets 2015 (release June 2015) …STAY TUNED!!!

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