attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting …, 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 …

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 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 …