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 …

finds that the project succeeded in targeting the poor and women farmers in its productive asset acquisition component …

This paper compares the dynamic consistency of targeting methodologies that use multidimensional welfare indicators … the Alkire and Foster (2008) dual cutoff multidimensional poverty methodology is proposed. This extension provides a … consistent targeting algorithms. …