Hillebrecht, Michael; Klonner, Stefan; Pacere, Noraogo A. - 2020
A body of recent studies has compared the ability of proxy-means testing (PMT), a data-driven poverty targeting … procedure, and community-based targeting (CBT), a participatory method, to identify consumption-poor households. Motivated by … targeting exercise. With data from Burkina Faso, we replicate the finding that PMT targets more accurately than CBT with respect …