Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households?

Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. This paper questions this assumption, using nutritional status as a proxy for individual poverty. Th...

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Main Authors:	Brown, Caitlin, Ravallion, Martin, van de Walle, Dominique
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	TARGETING UNDERNUTRITION POVERTY GENDER
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/427491489094206188/Are-poor-individuals-mainly-found-in-poor-households-evidence-using-nutrition-data-for-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26342

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spelling	okr-10986-263422021-06-08T14:42:48Z Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Brown, Caitlin Ravallion, Martin van de Walle, Dominique TARGETING UNDERNUTRITION POVERTY GENDER Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. This paper questions this assumption, using nutritional status as a proxy for individual poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely across the distribution of household wealth and consumption. Roughly three-quarters of underweight women and undernourished children are not found in the poorest 20 percent of households, and around half are not found in the poorest 40 percent. The mean joint probability of being an underweight woman and living in the poorest wealth quintile is only 0.03. Countries with higher overall rates of undernutrition tend to have a higher share of undernourished individuals in nonpoor households. The results are consistent with evidence of substantial intrahousehold inequality. 2017-04-12T21:05:03Z 2017-04-12T21:05:03Z 2017-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/427491489094206188/Are-poor-individuals-mainly-found-in-poor-households-evidence-using-nutrition-data-for-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26342 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8001 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. This paper questions this assumption, using nutritional status as a proxy for individual poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely across the distribution of household wealth and consumption. Roughly three-quarters of underweight women and undernourished children are not found in the poorest 20 percent of households, and around half are not found in the poorest 40 percent. The mean joint probability of being an underweight woman and living in the poorest wealth quintile is only 0.03. Countries with higher overall rates of undernutrition tend to have a higher share of undernourished individuals in nonpoor households. The results are consistent with evidence of substantial intrahousehold inequality.
format	Working Paper
author	Brown, Caitlin Ravallion, Martin van de Walle, Dominique
author_facet	Brown, Caitlin Ravallion, Martin van de Walle, Dominique
author_sort	Brown, Caitlin
title	Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households?
title_short	Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households?
title_full	Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households?
title_fullStr	Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households?
title_full_unstemmed	Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households?
title_sort	are poor individuals mainly found in poor households?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/427491489094206188/Are-poor-individuals-mainly-found-in-poor-households-evidence-using-nutrition-data-for-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26342
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