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 …

food crop producers. However, official statistics on poverty suggest that the cotton growing region of Sikasso is among the … detailed analysis of this paradox, the so-called Sikasso paradox. The official statistics on poverty are set out and data and …