A Benefit Incidence Analysis of the Pantawid Pamilya Program and the KALAHI-CIDSS Program

Year Published: 2014

Conducted By: Aljo Quintans, Raymond Gascon, Gina Bardillon, Daniel Bristol, Bonn Michael Canoza, Tricia Rona Maligalig, Paulo Mercado, et al.

In this study, the distributional impact of the Pantawid Pamilya and KALAHI-CIDSS Programs on the welfare of the poor is investigated.

Summary of Findings:

• Pantawid Pamilya benefits had only minimal effect in enhancing the welfare of the beneficiaries relative to the better off households or to their hypothetical welfare without the program.
• Pantawid Pamilya Program so far had only marginally improved the overall welfare of the poor, although it is near to delivering its full welfare impact.
• Sub-sample of household population is unlikely to be widely different in socioeconomic status, and the excluded households have fewer children and are likely to be richer.
• The program, even with its then 2011 budget, still has some ways to go to uplifting the living conditions of the poorest families.
• The KALAHI-CIDSS Program also has only marginally improved the welfare of its target households relative to the rest of the population.
• The bulk of the KALAHI-CIDSS program benefits – which include grants, overhead expenditures are local counterpart contributions – are concentrated to the poor.
• Where all households are included in the analysis, around 70% of the program benefits are received by the bottom 40% of the households.
• Where the analysis is limited to households in the KALAHI-CIDSS target provinces only, around 60% of the program benefits go to the bottom 40% of the households.
• Distribution of the KALAHI-CIDSS program benefits is progressive.
• It appears that the distribution of benefits is less pro-poor when the analysis is limited to households in the target provinces.
• For the poorest households, it is estimate that they would need an additional 2,170 pesos per member, or nearly double their estimated Pantawid benefits, to cross the 2012 poverty threshold.