A body of recent studies has compared the ability of proxy-means testing (PMT), a data-driven poverty targeting … out of poverty are frequent, we are first to assess PMT's and CBT's performance one and two years subsequent to the … to poverty at baseline, by 14 percent. We find that this pattern is reversed for households' poverty status twelve months …

Targeting of national anti-poverty programs in low-income countries commonly relies on statistical procedures involving … household-level survey data, while small-scale poverty-alleviation programs often employ so-called community-based targeting …

comparison to four other methods (the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) wealth index, the Poverty Probability Index (PPI …), Community Based Targeting (CBT) and the Ghana Government's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program). We first …

We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes … identify provision of information as a mechanism through which households use their connections to obtain the poverty … classification, suggesting that information campaigns may be an effective means of eliminating local level corruption in poverty …