A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares … when these measures are used as a decision criterion. Implications from poverty simulations are sensitive to assumptions …

household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity …

This paper examines Uganda's progress on poverty reduction when poverty is measured in multiple dimensions. In … particular, I consider poverty measures that are defined across household expenditures per capita or household assets, children …'s health status, and in some cases, mother's literacy. The comparisons are robust to the choice of poverty line, poverty …

Several studies report large and persistent differences in standards of living and poverty within a country. In this … paper, we study whether the observed differences in poverty incidence in urban areas are due to differences in the …, differences in the parameters are an important determinant of household income and poverty within a country …

This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons … of poverty comparisons show that: children with the lowest probability of survival are from households with the lowest … level of assets; and poverty orderings for child survival by assets are robust to the choice of the poverty line and to the …

effect, and poverty dominance techniques are applied to study the impacts of the maize price increase on rural poverty. …

as collateral. Using a field experiment in Kenya, we show that borrowers instead strongly prefer loans collateralized …