This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …

we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program … exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision …

Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …

, especially in the scope of the new international poverty reduction strategies (PRSP and HIPC initiatives). To gain a better … of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially public … development and for monitoring them in quantitative terms. Three specific modules (Multiple Dimensions of Poverty, Governance and …

relationship between the level of poverty and the support to market economy, which is not only conditioned by the deprivation of …