A body of recent studies has compared the ability of proxy-means testing (PMT), a data-driven poverty targeting … out of poverty are frequent, we are first to assess PMT's and CBT's performance one and two years subsequent to the … to poverty at baseline, by 14 percent. We find that this pattern is reversed for households' poverty status twelve months …

identification of the poor between the two poverty measures (R0). In Chile, over the past 25 years, R0 has declined at a rate of 1 … measure and the Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index. For this purpose, we use a measure of redundancy in the … poverty index, we find that the divergence in the identification of the poor can be explained by education improvements …