The Jamaican food stamps programme has proved to be administratively viable and much better targeted than the general food subsidy programme that it replaces. It is therefore of interest to those concerned with designing targeted nutrition or poverty interventions. This article gives a brief...

Simulated transfer schemes using household data for Venezuela, Mexico and Jamaica indicate that geographic targeting is a useful mechanism for transferring benefits to the poor. Poverty can be significantly reduced when compared with transfer schemes involving no targeting, such as general food...