Social programmes for poverty alleviation involve eligibility rules and transfer rules that often proxy-means tests. We … propose to specify the estimator in connection with the poverty alleviation problem. Three distinct stages emerge from the …-values of living standards plugged into the poverty minimization programme to obtain the transfer amounts. We apply these …

approach by performing poverty comparisons using data for Indonesia and Peru. …We propose a methodology for comparing poverty over multiple periods across time and space without arbitrarily … aggregating income over various years or relying on arbitrarily specified poverty lines. Following Duclos et al. (2006a), we use …