Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?

• Tác giả: Chris Elbers
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 929.20 Genealogy, names, insignia
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 306474
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO INFORMATION; 2. BENEFICIARIES; 3. BUDGET CONSTRAINTS; 4. CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES; 5. ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES

Tóm tắt

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.