), Community Based Targeting (CBT) and the Ghana Government's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program). We first … comparison to four other methods (the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) wealth index, the Poverty Probability Index (PPI … developed our new ML-based PMT by applying machine learning techniques to the nationally-representative 2016-2017 Ghana Living …

(CBT) and Ghana’s government LEAP (Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty program) at identifying the poorest households … methods (the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) wealth index, the Poverty Probability Index (PPI), Community Based Targeting …-2017 Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS7) and compared its performance with an already existing PMT (the PPI). We then evaluated …

to address the many facets of poverty. The 4Ps is by far the largest poverty reduction and social development program the … to alleviate their immediate needs and aims to "break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human …

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 …