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

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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
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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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5184681/poverty-alleviation-through-geographic-targeting-much-disaggregation-help
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14247