Poverty targeting programs can in principle be assessed as projects using the tools of either cost-benefit or cost …-effectiveness calculations based on costs per unit of benefit received by the poor. Many poverty programs appear high cost due to the targeting … commissioned by the ADB Institute. It concludes that poverty targeting remains important but schemes must be modest and narrowly …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …