official strategies to measure and tackle fuel poverty. We focus on measurement and targeting of measures to tackle fuel … vulnerable households. We also find differences across countries regarding the targeting of measures to tackle fuel poverty. In …In this article, we use expenditure-based and self-reported data on fuel poverty for Spain and Ireland to analyse …

Social Protection Indicators of Resilience and Equity (Aspire). We calculate several different targeting and poverty … poverty line or targeting metric used. With respect to the effect on poverty reduction, the results suggest an important role …In this paper we evaluate how well-targeted and effective in reducing poverty the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was in …

decisions depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a … much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision maker to substitute in force price …

can come with worse targeting performance; the allocation to the poor falls faster than that to the non-poor. Some lessons …

We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves … can be decomposed simply as sums of targeting dominance curves and allocation dominance ones, and can serve to verify …

how community information can reduce targeting costs. If each community is given a hard budget constraint, then targeting … collusion. Community information is of no help in targeting, however, if (a) it cannot be veri…ed by audits or (b) the …

test a new method that could be later used by development practitioners to assess the poverty level of beneficiaries of … poverty index using principle component analysis, and is based on a range of indicators that describes different dimensions of … poverty and for which credible information can be quickly and inexpensively obtained. To ensure the method's usefulness to a …