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 …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost … proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based on Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC)-analysis, we find that PMTs …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost … proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based on Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC)-analysis, we find that PMTs …

income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality …