Multi-level assessments for better targeting of the poor

Scott A. Fritzen and Caroline Brassard
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Caroline Brassard: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Progress in Development Studies, 2007, vol. 7, issue 2, 99-113

Abstract: This paper examines how various poverty assessment modalities serve to strengthen the governance capacities necessary to target the poor. Large-scale surveys and qualitative, ‘bottom-up’ assessments both have shortcomings in this regard. A ‘multi-level’ synthesis would in theory link a unified indicator framework (such as the Millennium Development Goals) to localized situation assessments and facilitate multi-sectoral efforts to target the poor. Case studies of actual efforts to do this from Vietnam and Burma highlight the way in which the governance context of a country must be taken into account when designing such efforts.

Keywords: poverty; evaluation; donors; targeting; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/146499340600700202

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