This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable … improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method …

monitoring. -- Poverty ; Targeting ; Transfers ; Spatial Prices …In this paper, we study the role of price correction in estimating the impact of price subsidies and anti-poverty cash … transfer schemes on poverty in Tunisia. Three types of price corrections are considered: (a) no corrections; (b) living …

opposed to absolute poverty. If one accepts that taxation is to fund public services, the question arises, at least in … issue of which is more pressing, relative as opposed to absolute poverty?The contention in this paper is that there is a far …

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty …

(english) This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on … anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In … terms of P2, the most popular axiomatically valid poverty indicator, moving from 1.30, the level reached under subsidies, to …

poverty alleviation policies. We find inter alia that the social ranking of commodity and socio-demographic targeting in … assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequity …-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation programs done with simple under-coverage and leakage ratios …

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty …

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty …

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable … improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method …

that targeting by commodities is not an effective way to fight against poverty and so, it is unlikely that restructuring …This paper describes the effects of general food subsidies on poverty in Tunisia, as revealed by household survey data … investigate the impact on poverty of a more targeted transfer scheme, based on proxy means-tests, using an appropriate econometric …