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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spelling	okr-10986-142472021-04-23T14:03:21Z Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help? Elbers, Chris Fujii, Tomoki Lanjouw, Peter Özler, Berk Yin, Wesley 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 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. 2013-06-27T18:30:36Z 2013-06-27T18:30:36Z 2004-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5184681/poverty-alleviation-through-geographic-targeting-much-disaggregation-help http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14247 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No.3419 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, D.C. Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa East Asia and Pacific Latin America & Caribbean Cambodia Ecuador Madagascar
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topic	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
spellingShingle	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 Elbers, Chris Fujii, Tomoki Lanjouw, Peter Özler, Berk Yin, Wesley Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No.3419
description	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.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Elbers, Chris Fujii, Tomoki Lanjouw, Peter Özler, Berk Yin, Wesley
author_facet	Elbers, Chris Fujii, Tomoki Lanjouw, Peter Özler, Berk Yin, Wesley
author_sort	Elbers, Chris
title	Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
title_short	Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
title_full	Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
title_fullStr	Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
title_full_unstemmed	Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
title_sort	poverty alleviation through geographic targeting: how much does disaggregation help?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, D.C.
publishDate	2013
url	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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