The central governments of many developing countries have chosen to decentralize their anti-poverty programs, in the expectation that local agents are better informed about local needs. The paper shows that this potential advantage of decentralized eligibility criteria can come at a large cost, to the extent that the induced geographic inequities undermine performance in reaching the income- poor nationally. These issues are studied empirically for...
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2007/08/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4303
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2010/07/01
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Geographic inequity in a decentralized anti-poverty program : a case study of China
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income elasticity
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