How well can we target aid with rapidly collected data? Empirical results for poverty mapping from Cambodia

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Tomoki FUJII
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• الموضوعات: Asia; Cambodia; poverty; principal component; small-area estimation; targeting; Asian Studies; Economics; Public Economics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1940; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2939/viewcontent/TargetAidDataCambodia_2008.pdf

We compare commune-level poverty rankings in Cambodia based on three different methods: small-area estimation, principal component analysis using aggregate data, and interviews with local leaders. While they provide reasonably consistent rankings, the choice of the ranking method matters. In order t...