important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial … poverty and inequality in terms of incentives to design formulas to distribute earmarked fiscal resources to subnational …

We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes … identify provision of information as a mechanism through which households use their connections to obtain the poverty … classification, suggesting that information campaigns may be an effective means of eliminating local level corruption in poverty …