Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/323394 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics (CREBSS) [ISSN:] 2459-5616 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 56-74
Publisher: 
Sciendo, Warsaw
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the inefficiency of social services targeting in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FB&H). Using official statistics microdata of the Household Budget Survey 2015, three models of social minimum in FB&H were constructed: extreme and general poverty, and the model with multidimensional poverty aspects. The analysis of features of poor household categories showed that the most vulnerable residents of FB&H are not beneficiaries of permanent financial assistance. The reason for such an inefficient targeting was recognized in the Federal Law on Principles of Social Care, Care for the War-Disabled Civilians and Care for Families with Children that stipulates that only persons and families that (cumulatively): are incapable for work, have insufficient income, and there are no family members who are legally obligated to support them. The results indicated a high inconsistency in the legal criteria for qualification, and also in the amounts of permanent social assistance among cantons. The Proxy Means Test (PMT) Model is offered as one of the possible solutions for the improvement of social services targeting in FB&H. Given the importance of efficiency of targeting in social services, the research results could be useful, for both, vulnerable segments of the society and federal and cantonal ministries of labour and social affairs, in the process of targeting the households qualified for social support programmes.
Subjects: 
official statistics
Permanent financial assistance
Proxy Means Testing
social services
targeting
JEL: 
C21
I31
I38
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Document Type: 
Article

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