Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

income poverty line ('dollar-a-day'), this paper discusses whether there is merit to develop an Asia-specific poverty line … situation. We consider various ways of creating an Asia-specific poverty line, including an Asia-specific international income … poverty line (using purchasing-power parity [PPP] adjusted dollars) that is derived from Asian national poverty lines. We …

income poverty line ('dollar-a-day'), this paper discusses whether there is merit to develop an Asia-specific poverty line … situation. We consider various ways of creating an Asia-specific poverty line, including an Asia-specific international income … poverty line (using purchasing-power parity [PPP] adjusted dollars) that is derived from Asian national poverty lines. We …

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … hidden costs associated with targeting - including politico-economic constraints on budgets - but these are frequently … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares …

-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 effect on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …