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.
Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Elbers, Chris,
Fujii, Tomoki,
Lanjouw, Peter,
Özler, Berk,
Yin, Wesley |
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2004-10
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| 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, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5184681/poverty-alleviation-through-geographic-targeting-much-disaggregation-help
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14247
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