, health and standard of living. Our findings indicate that Cambodia shows the highest level of poverty, followed by Indonesia … poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in … Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Using the general framework proposed by Silber and Yalonetzky (2013), this paper …

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares …

There is no international consensus on what poverty is and how it should be measured. The most commonly used poverty … indicator, income level, is limited as it ignores the multidimensional character of poverty. Because the choice of an indicator …, the choice of a poverty indicator is important. It sets priorities for policies and programs and determines outcomes of …