Commune-Level Estimation of Poverty Measure and its Application in Cambodia

• Main Author: FUJII, Tomoki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Economic Policy; Education Policy; Growth and Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/628; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1627/viewcontent/Fujii_Cambodia_Commune_level_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Cambodia is still suffering from the legacy of civil conflict after more than a decade. With over one-third of the population living below the poverty line, poverty remains one of the most serious problems in Cambodia. A number of governmental bodies, local and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and international organizations operating in Cambodia have made eradicating poverty a priority and have established many social programmes to this end. In designing such programmes, the efficient allocation of resources is essential for making poverty alleviation more cost-effective. Targeting is often helpful for this purpose because one can avoid wasting resources on the non-poor, which would occur in the absence of targeting. If targeting were costless and consumption poverty were at issue, it would be desirable to formulate a targeting policy such that the gap between current consumption and the poverty line were just filled.