poverty measurement controversy based on two sources of estimations but explores consistent estimation. …In this paper an attempt is made to estimate poverty line/ratio and inequality consistent with NAS based consumption …

The present paper aims to adduce succinctly the reasons and arguments sustaining female-targeting microfinance programs …, predominantly because of their capacity of offering an effective and operational tool against poverty. The herewith paper basically … character of poverty reduction. With regard to the second axis (composed by the 5th part of the corpus), it emphases the …

The government of Chile has been using for many years a system for the targeting of many of its income transfers and … for benefits. Each household is attributed a score on the basis of the ficha CAS, and this score is used to determine … to social housing, and childcare centers. At the local level, municipalities also use the form for the targeting of their …

Budget constraints faced by governments in developing countries imply that the targeting performance of public … subsidies and social programs (whether the subsidies are provided in cash or in kind) is important for reducing poverty. In this … various targeting systems (including proxy means testing and geographic targeting) could help to improve targeting performance. …

-term development plan and the Millennium Development Goals, poverty in its multidimensionality remain a major issue in Indonesia as a … consistently since 2002, most of those escaping poverty are still vulnerable and just a small shock can send them quickly below the … poverty line. Using the PPP $2/day poverty line as a vulnerability measure, the World Bank (2006) found that 45% of …

with an independent household survey, we find that the UDB system is more progressive than previous targeting approaches …Centralised targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries …. This paper provides the first attempt to identify the relative importance of two key design issues for targeting accuracy …

The potential benefits of accurate targeting are substantial because public expenditures can be concentrated to the … needy, thereby saving money and improving program efficiency. However, targeting also entails the administrative costs … safety net programs shows that targeting was one of the most difficult problems in the implementation of these programs. As a …

redistribution are necessary for poverty reduction. For growth theoreticians, economic growth must be pursued while for political … the effect of these variables using two recent national household survey data sets collected by the National Bureau of … statistics in 1996 and 2004 upon which we applied three commonly used poverty indices(FGT) and the Shapely decomposition …

poverty in Pakistan. The study decomposes education of the household into different levels: primary, middle, matriculation …This study examines household characteristics and personal characteristics of the household head as the determinants of …, intermediate, bachelors and higher studies and finds evidence that poverty is greatest among the less literate households and …