The human, social and economic costs of Rwanda`s genocide have been staggering. The losses in life cannot be reversed and the psychological impact of the violence will take a long time to heal. The country has made remarkable progress over the last 10 years to get back to where it would have...

Evaluation of the poverty impact and targeting performance of a given social program may depend on how other programs are treated in the analysis. Using well-known results from cooperative game theory, this paper proposes an empirically simple yet theoretically sound method for allocating...

The targeting efficiency and the coverage of social programs for the poor are typically analyzed by partitioning the total population in four mutually exclusive groups: the poor who benefit from a program or policy, the poor who do not benefit, the non-poor who benefit, and the non-poor who do...