Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance Under Multiple Government Programs

The evaluation of the poverty impact and targeting performance of a given social program may depend on how other programs are treated in the analysis.Using well-known results from cooperative game theory, this paper proposes an empirically simple yet theoretically sound method for allocating between various programs the overall poverty reduction obtained from a set of programs, and for assessing the targeting performance of each program

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Year of publication:	2001
Authors:	Makdissi, Paul ; Wodon, Quentin
Institutions:	Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration
Subject:	Poverty \| targeting \| social programs \| Chile \| Latin America

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Cahiers de recherche.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	18 pages
Classification:	H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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