This paper investigates the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at the 62 poorest districts in Viet Nam. The analysis of multiple data sets spanning the past 20 years uses a regression...
Generating timely data to identify the poorest villages in developing countries remains a fundamental challenge for existing data systems. This paper investigates the accuracy of four alternative methods...
This paper develops a framework to bound the welfare impacts of reforms to notches using two sufficient statistics: (1) the number of households bunching at the old notch who move toward the new notch...
Ce document est un fichier infographie du rapport « Identification des ménages pauvres et vulnérables en Tunisie » (CRES et Banque mondiale, 2020) concernant une nouvelle approche de ciblage, en particulier...
Ce document est un résumé exécutif du rapport « Identification des ménages pauvres et vulnérables en Tunisie » (CRES et Banque mondiale, 2020) concernant une nouvelle approche de ciblage, en particulier...
Half of all undernourished women and children in South Asia are not found in the bottom 40 percent of wealth-poor households. This paper quantifies the extent to which this inequality in nutritional status...
The overall objective of the Additional Financing for the Health Services and Social Assistance Project is to promote the Government's program to increase access to quality and efficient health services...
This paper interprets case studies, and theory on community involvement in beneficiary selection, and benefit delivery for social safety nets. Several considerations should be carefully balanced in assessing...