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Miss-targeted or miss-measured?

Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5061905 Economics Letters 2008 4 Pages PDF
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.

Keywords
I38O15cash transfersMeasurement errorsTargetingChina
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Social Sciences and Humanities Economics, Econometrics and Finance Economics and Econometrics
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Miss-targeted or miss-measured?
Authors
Martin Ravallion,
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