Reaching the Poor: Fine Tuning Poverty Targeting Using a 'Poverty Map'— the Case of Mozambique

Orlando San Martin

No DP2001-133, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Combining data from both, a nationwide standards of living survey (LSMS) and a national population and housing census, this paper generates a disaggregated map of poverty and living conditions in Mozambique. This analytical tool helps to overcome a problem very common until recently, namely that most nationwide studies of poverty were too general to support the design of policy interventions at the local level. In this paper, we disaggregate both expenditure and non-expenditure based indicators of poverty and well-being for the whole country.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Economic development projects; Public expenditures; Poverty; Welfare economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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