-eective way to identify income-poor beneciaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression- techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be conned to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the eect on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneciaries across inclusion rates suggests that the …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression-techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the impact on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …