Poverty Targeting in Asia: Experiences from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, People’s Republic of China and Thailand
Published By: ADBI on eSS | Published Date: March, 01 , 2004Poverty targeting, defined as the use of policy instruments to channel
resources to a target group identified below an agreed national poverty line, is
used by all governments in Asia in one form or another, either to ‘protect’ the
poor from adverse shocks or ‘promote’ their long-run move out of poverty.
Such measures typically include reaching the poor with credit, food,
employment, access to health and other social facilities and occasionally cash
transfers. [ADBI Research Policy Brief No.9] URL: [http://www.adbi.org/files/2004.03.rpb09.poverty.targeting.asia.pdf
Author(s): John Weiss | Posted on: Mar 11, 2011 | Views(923) | Download (144)