Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (FAO 2015). Its main economic activity is agriculture, including …

achieve their own political and economic goals, while disregarding overwhelming evidence about the programme’s failures. The …This paper analyses the Peruvian Food Assistance Programme (PRONAA) policy process using the RAPID framework to … case of PRONAA is particularly significant because of the magnitude of the public funds involved, about US$100 million per …

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 …, where village communities themselves identify program beneficiaries. Combining data from community-based targeting exercises …

targeting metrics together with the curvature of governments' social welfare function and budgetary and political constraints. …

. The method outperforms common targeting methods, such as proxy means tests and the targeting method currently used by …

improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method …