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Important differences exist between communities with respect to their needs, capacities, and circumstances. As central governments are not able to discern these differences fully, they seek to achieve their policy objectives by relying on decentralized mechanisms that use local information....
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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 …
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