Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting : how much does disaggregation help?, Vol. 1 of 1

About

Countries

Data & Research

Learning

News

Projects & Operations

Publications

Topics

Home > Data & Research > Research > Document Search > Report Details

Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting : how much does disaggregation help?

Author:	Elbers, Chris; Tomoki Fujii; Lanjouw, Peter; Ozler, Berk; Yin, Wesley;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper series ; no. WPS 3419
Country:	Cambodia; Ecuador; Madagascar;	Date Stored:	2004/10/20
Document Date:	2004/10/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	East Asia and Pacific; Africa; Latin America & Caribbean
Report Number:	WPS3419	SubTopics:	Poverty Monitoring & Analysis; Environmental Economics & Policies; Poverty Reduction Strategies; VN-Acb Mis -- IFC-00535908; Rural Poverty Reduction; Poverty Assessment; Services & Transfers to Poor; Health Economics & Finance; Safety Nets and Transfers
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: 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.


Official Documents Official, scanned versions of documents (may include signatures, etc.)
File Type		Description	File Size (mb)

	PDF 42 pages	Official version*	0.25
	Text	Text version**


Light-Weight Documents Lighter (less MB) documents which may or may not be the final, official version
File Type		Description	File Size (mb)

	PDF 42 pages	WPS3419	0.25

* The official version is derived from scanning the final, paper copy of the document and is the official,
archived version including all signatures, charts, etc.

** The text version is the OCR text of the final scanned version and is not an accurate representation of the final text.
It is provided solely to benefit users with slow connectivity.

Permanent URL for this page: http://go.worldbank.org/E94O51BZS0