Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized

possible through a long term collaborative effort between the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the World Bank’s South Asia Region. The paper was prepared as an input to World Bank (1998). The support of the World Bank’s Research Committee (under RPO 681-39) is gratefully acknowledged, as are the comments of Harold Alderman, Jyotsna Jalan, Manny Jimenez,