Miss-targeted or miss-measured?

Martin Ravallion

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 100, issue 1, 9-12

Abstract: A method is proposed for testing the robustness of the assessed targeting performance of an anti-poverty program to the fact that program administrators have a broader concept of "poverty" than the economist/evaluator. An application is given to China's main urban anti-poverty program.

Date: 2008
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