In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

the largest poverty effect is attained with very narrow targeting. Hence, we find a trade-off between targeting accuracy …-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 …

the largest poverty impact is attained with very narrow targeting. Hence, the link between targeting accuracy and poverty …-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 …

Targeting of national anti-poverty programs in low-income countries commonly relies on statistical procedures involving … household-level survey data, while small-scale poverty-alleviation programs often employ so-called community-based targeting …, where village communities themselves identify program beneficiaries. Combining data from community-based targeting exercises …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size … (number of beneficiaries, size of transfer per beneficiary, and size of total budget) and three dimensions of targeting … (coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …

In this paper, we argue that the intensification of capital use and an acceleration of real wage growth can be the main … culprits of the “jobless growth” in Indonesian manufacturing sector for the period of 1999-2008, a period of recovery from the … Asian Crisis. This can also endanger the poverty reduction aspiration during the same period. We simulate the situation …