Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: ELBERS, Chris, FUJII, Tomoki, LANJOUW, Peter, OZLER, Berk, YIN, Wesley
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• الموضوعات: Targeting; Poverty; Poverty maps; Economic Policy; Income Distribution
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/269; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1268/viewcontent/Poverty_alleviation_through_geographic_targeting_2007.pdf

In this paper, we employ recently completed “poverty maps” for three countries as tools for an ex ante evaluation of the distributional incidence of geographic targeting of public resources. We simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined sub-g...