Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households?
Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. This paper questions this assumption, using nutritional status as a proxy for individual poverty. Th...
Main Authors: | Brown, Caitlin, Ravallion, Martin, van de Walle, Dominique |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/427491489094206188/Are-poor-individuals-mainly-found-in-poor-households-evidence-using-nutrition-data-for-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26342 |
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