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Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) -rural by country

Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Cash Transfers programs (%)

Countries reporting
24
Highest
0.6335
Serbia
Lowest
0.0655
Uruguay
Median
0.4427
Years covered
19
2004–2022
Data points
202

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) -rural is currently reported for 24 countries. The highest value is 0.6335 in Serbia; the lowest is 0.0655 in Uruguay.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.4427, and the mean is 0.4001.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10.

Over the past decade 13 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Turkey (up 318.1%), and the largest decrease in Indonesia (down 43.1%).

Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers -1st quintile: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Serbia 0.6335 2022 up 15.2% rising
2 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.6255 2017 up 6.5% flat
2 Kosovo 0.6255 2017 up 6.5% flat
4 Belarus 0.539 2019 up 7.2% rising
5 Kazakhstan 0.5298 2021 down 0.7% flat
6 Georgia 0.5222 2021 up 10.1% rising
7 Turkey 0.4833 2013 up 318.1% rising
8 Ukraine 0.4716 2018 down 1.0% falling
9 Armenia 0.4548 2022 up 15.9% flat
10 Moldova 0.4542 2018 down 15.5% falling
11 Romania 0.4494 2021 up 1.2% flat
12 Poland 0.4452 2019 down 13.1% falling
13 Kyrgyzstan 0.4403 2020 down 20.0% falling
14 Costa Rica 0.4334 2022 up 22.1% rising
15 Sri Lanka 0.3973 2019 down 1.1% rising
16 Mongolia 0.3923 2020 up 53.6% rising
17 Chile 0.3695 2022 up 66.3% rising
18 Pakistan 0.3134 2018 up 46.0% rising
19 Vietnam 0.2612 2020 up 50.7% falling
20 Indonesia 0.238 2022 down 43.1% falling
21 Peru 0.1897 2022 — rising
22 El Salvador 0.1431 2022 down 42.5% falling
23 Colombia 0.1243 2022 down 35.5% rising
24 Uruguay 0.0655 2022 down 24.7% falling

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Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) -rural
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
24 places, 202 data points, 2004–2022
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Cash Transfers programs (%)