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 … perform poorly in terms of identifying poor households in Bolivian data when transfers are targeted narrowly to the poor but …

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 … perform poorly in terms of identifying poor households in Bolivian data when transfers are targeted narrowly to the poor but …

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 … perform poorly in terms of identifying poor households in Bolivian data when transfers are targeted narrowly to the poor but …

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 … perform poorly in terms of identifying poor households in Bolivian data when transfers are targeted narrowly to the poor but …

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 … perform poorly in terms of identifying poor households in Bolivian data when transfers are targeted narrowly to the poor but …

transfers vis-à-vis universal transfers or from more narrow targeting. Theoretical work, on the other hand, has identified … attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting …, optimizing targeting measures will be misleading when the actual goal is to maximize the effect on poverty. …

transfers vis-à-vis universal transfers or from more narrow targeting. Theoretical work, on the other hand, has identified … attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting …, optimizing targeting measures will be misleading when the actual goal is to maximize the effect on poverty. …

: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … size of their transfers and their historic under-coverage of the population living in poverty. Transfers represent … that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …