Community and anti-poverty targeting
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Community and Anti-Poverty Targeting
The standard theory of anti-poverty targeting assumes individual incomes cannot be observed, but statistical properties of income distribution in broadly defined groups are known. Targeting rules are then derived for the forms of transfers conditioned on group membership of individuals. In this literature the motivating notion of a “group” is purely statistical, even when it is groups such as l...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Economic Inequality
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1569-1721,1573-8701
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-005-9005-5