Douidich, MohammedEzzrari, AbdeljouadLanjouw, Peter2012-06-042012-06-042008-09https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6981The authors employ the recently completed "poverty map" for Morocco, referring to the year 2004, as a tool for an ex-ante evaluation of the distributional incidence of geographic targeting of public resources. They simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined sub-groups of the population according to their relative poverty status. In both rural and urban areas, the findings reveal large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as communes or districts. However, these gains are still far from the poverty reduction that would be possible had the planners had access to information on household level income or consumption. The results indicate that a useful way forward might be to combine fine geographic targeting using a poverty map with within-community targeting mechanisms.CC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO INFORMATIONALLEVIATION OF POVERTYANTI-POVERTYAVAILABILITY OF POVERTY ESTIMATESBENCHMARK CASEBENCHMARK SCENARIOCAPITA CONSUMPTION MEASURECAPITA CONSUMPTION VALUECAPITA EXPENDITURECENSUS ENUMERATION AREACHOICE OF POVERTY LINECLASS OF POVERTY MEASURESCLUSTER CORRELATIONCLUSTER-LEVEL EFFECTSCOMMUNE LEVEL TARGETINGCOMMUNITY LEVELCOMMUNITY TARGETINGCOMMUNITY TARGETING MECHANISMSCONFIDENCE BOUNDSCONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTIONCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURESCONSUMPTION LEVELCONSUMPTION LEVEL PER HOUSEHOLDCONSUMPTION MEASUREDATA ON INCOMESDATA ON POVERTYDECOMPOSABLE POVERTYDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPMENT RESEARCH GROUPDIMENSIONS OF POVERTYDISTRICT LEVELDISTRICT-LEVELERRORS OF INCLUSIONESTIMATES OF POVERTYEXOGENOUSLY GIVEN BUDGETEXPENDITURE DISTRIBUTIONSEXPENDITURES FROM CENSUS DATAEXPLANATORY VARIABLESEXTREME POVERTYEXTREME POVERTY LINEFIRST-STAGE ESTIMATIONFOOD POLICYFOOD SUBSIDIESGEOGRAPHIC AGGREGATIONGEOGRAPHIC AREAGEOGRAPHIC LEVELGEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONGEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF RESIDENCEGLOBAL DEVELOPMENTHEADCOUNT RATEHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTIONHOUSEHOLD LEVELHOUSEHOLD LEVEL INCOMEHOUSEHOLD SIZEHOUSEHOLD SURVEYHOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATAHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSHOUSEHOLD WEIGHTSHOUSEHOLD-LEVELHOUSEHOLD-LEVEL PER CAPITA CONSUMPTIONHUMAN DEVELOPMENTHYPOTHETICAL BUDGETHYPOTHETICAL SCENARIOIDIOSYNCRATIC ERRORIMPACT ON POVERTYIMPERFECT INFORMATIONINCOMEINCOME DATAINCOME DISTRIBUTIONINCOME LEVELINCOME TRANSFERSINCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIESINDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLDSINEQUALITYINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTEKNOWLEDGE ABOUT POVERTY LEVELSKNOWLEDGE ABOUT POVERTY OUTCOMESLEVEL OF POVERTYLIVING STANDARDSLOCAL ESTIMATES OF POVERTYLOWER VALUESLUMP-SUMLUMP-SUM TRANSFERLUMP-SUM TRANSFER SCHEMELUMP-SUM TRANSFERSMEASURE OF POVERTYMULTIVARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONNATIONAL LEVELNATIONAL POVERTYNATIONAL POVERTY RATENATIONAL-LEVEL POVERTY ESTIMATENUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDSOPTIMAL SCHEMEOPTIMAL TARGETINGOPTIMAL TRANSFER SIMULATIONSOPTIMIZATION PROBLEMOPTIMIZATION SCHEMEPARAMETER ESTIMATESPER CAPITA CONSUMPTIONPOLICY RESEARCHPOLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERPOLICY SIMULATIONPOLICY-SIMULATION EXERCISEPOLITICAL ECONOMYPOLITICAL PROCESSPOORPOOR COMMUNITIESPOOR LOCALITIESPOOR PEOPLEPOOR PERSONPOOR PERSONSPOOR SEGMENTS OF SOCIETYPOPULATION CENSUSPOPULATION SIZEPOVERTY ALLEVIATIONPOVERTY ALLEVIATION EFFORTSPOVERTY ALLEVIATION STRATEGYPOVERTY COMPARISONSPOVERTY ESTIMATESPOVERTY GAPPOVERTY GAP RATEPOVERTY IMPACTPOVERTY LEVELSPOVERTY LINEPOVERTY LINESPOVERTY MAPPOVERTY MAPPINGPOVERTY MAPPING METHODOLOGYPOVERTY MAPSPOVERTY MEASUREPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY REDUCTION EFFORTSPOVERTY STATUSPROGRESSPROXY INDICATORSPROXY WELFARE INDEXPUBLIC POLICIESPUBLIC RESOURCESREGRESSORSRESOURCE MOBILIZATIONRURALRURAL AREASRURAL COMMUNITIESRURAL POPULATIONRURAL POVERTYRURAL POVERTY RATERURAL PROVINCESSAVINGSSIMULATION PROCEDURESSIMULATION STAGESIMULATIONSSMALL NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDSSOCIAL ASSISTANCESOCIAL DEVELOPMENTSOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURESOCIAL WELFARESPATIAL CORRELATIONSPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONSPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTYSTANDARD DEVIATIONSTANDARD ERRORSTANDARD ERRORSSTATISTICAL PRECISIONSTATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCESTATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF POVERTY DIFFERENCESTARGETINGTARGETING MECHANISMSTERTIARY EDUCATIONTRANSFER POVERTYTRANSFER PROGRAMSTRANSFER SCHEMETRANSFER SCHEMESUNIFORM LUMPUNIFORM LUMP-SUM TRANSFERUNIFORM TRANSFERURBAN AREASURBAN POPULATIONURBAN POVERTYVARIANCE-COVARIANCE MATRICESVULNERABILITYWELFARE INDICATORWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-4724