Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?

Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their...

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Main Authors: Elbers, Chris, Fujii, Tomoki, Lanjouw, Peter, Özler, Berk, Yin, Wesley
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
BENEFICIARIES
BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EQUILIBRIUM
FIXED COSTS
GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
IMPERFECT INFORMATION
INCOME
INEQUALITY
MEANS TESTING
MICROECONOMICS
OPTIMAL TARGETING
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
POLICY MAKERS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL ECONOMY
POOR
POOR PEOPLE
POOR PERSONS
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
POVERTY ESTIMATES
POVERTY GAP
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY OUTCOMES
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION OBJECTIVES
PUBLIC GOODS
PUBLIC SPENDING
SAMPLE SIZE
SAVINGS
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL SERVICES
TARGETED TRANSFER PROGRAMS
TARGETED TRANSFERS
TARGETING
TARGETING MECHANISMS
TRANSPARENCY
URBAN AREAS
WELFARE GAINS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5184681/poverty-alleviation-through-geographic-targeting-much-disaggregation-help
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14247
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Summary:Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But these gains are still far from the poverty reduction that would be possible had the planners had access to information on household level income or consumption. The results suggest that a useful way forward might be to combine fine geographic targeting using a poverty map with within-community targeting mechanisms.

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