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 …

This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of … so on. Yet the paper demonstrates that in all three countries the poverty estimates produced from census data are both …