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This study proposes a method for testing whether transient and chronic poverty share common determinants. The authors define transient poverty as the contribution of consumption variability over time to expected consumption poverty. Using household panel data for rural China the authors test whether transient poverty is determined by a process that is similar to chronic poverty. (DSE/DÜI)

A methodology is proposed for targeting those in need of poverty alleviation with imperfect information on recipients' incomes. A measure of the gain from targeting is also proposed. The problem of allocating a fixed budget for poverty relief among sectors & regions of a less developed country is used as an example, & calculations of poverty-minimizing allocations are presented for Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, & Sri Lanka. The gains from optimal targeting can be considerable, although they vary widely according to the distributional circumstances of particular countries & the amount of targeting information available to the policymaker. 2 Tables, 14 References. HA

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts and Methods of Poverty Analysis -- 2.1 Conceptual Approaches to Measuring 'Well-Being' -- 2.2 Using Household Surveys for Welfare Measurement -- Survey Design -- Goods Coverage and Valuation -- Variability and the Time Period of Measurement -- Comparisons across Households at Similar Consumption Levels -- 2.3 Some Alternative Measures -- Real Consumption per Equivalent Adult -- Nutritional Indicators -- Anthropological Methods -- Summary -- 2.4 Poverty Lines -- 'Absolute' versus 'Relative' Poverty -- Basic Needs Poverty Lines -- Relative Poverty Lines -- Subjective Poverty Lines -- Dual Poverty Lines -- Summary -- 2.5 Adding Up Poverty -- Poverty Measures -- Measurement Errors -- Estimation -- Hypothesis Testing -- Summary -- 2.6 Decompositions -- Poverty Profiles -- Decomposing a Change in Poverty: Growth and Redistribution Components -- The Sectoral Decomposition of a Change in Poverty -- 2.7 The Robustness of Ordinal Poverty Comparisons -- A Single Measure of Standard of Living -- More than One Dimension -- Summary -- 3. Putting Theory into Practice -- 3.1 How Well Can the Prevalence of Poverty in a Country be Predicted Without a Household Survey? -- 3.2 How Well do Cross-Sectional Indicators Identify the Long-Term Poor? -- 3.3 Which Sector or Region has More Poverty? -- Urban-Rural Poverty Lines in Indonesia -- Examples of More Detailed Sectoral and Regional Poverty Profiles -- 3.4 How Reliable are Assessments of Progress in Poverty Reduction? -- Bangladesh in the 1980s -- Indonesia in the 1980s -- 3.5 What is the Relative Importance of Growth versus Redistribution? -- 3.6 How Important are Different Sectors to Changes in Poverty? -- 3.7 How do Price Changes Affect the Poor? -- Rice Prices and Poverty in Indonesia

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