Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting

• Main Authors: ELBERS, Chris, FUJII, Tomoki, LANJOUW, Peter, OZLER, Berk, YIN, Wesley
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Targeting; Poverty; Poverty maps; Economic Policy; Income Distribution
• Online Access: 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...