This article carries out a validation exercise of vulnerability measures as predictors of poverty at the aggregate and … micro levels based on short and long term panel data for Argentina and Chile. It then compares their performance to that of … deprivation indicators. The main findings indicate that while vulnerability measures are good predictors of poverty in the …

We investigate the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at 62 poorest districts in Vietnam … we do not find significant program effects on household welfare (as measured by per capita income and poverty) and local …

choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes …

the largest poverty impact is attained with very narrow targeting. Hence, the link between targeting accuracy and poverty …-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression-techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …

the largest poverty effect is attained with very narrow targeting. Hence, we find a trade-off between targeting accuracy …-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression- techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …

, optimizing targeting measures will be misleading when the actual goal is to maximize the effect on poverty. …A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … transfers vis-à-vis universal transfers or from more narrow targeting. Theoretical work, on the other hand, has identified …