This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … confined to the poor within each population group (that is, "poverty targeted" transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …

-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 …