choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes …

There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … empirical underpinning of this claim is a strong inverse relationship at the country level between social transfer targeting and … targeting and redistributive impact over a broad set of empirical specifications, country selections and data sources has in …