This book is a must read for researchers and students interested in poverty, poverty reduction, social welfare and development. It provides systematic and comparative studies on the design features, achievements and problems of targeting, set against specific national contexts. The economic focus of the analysis is balanced with sections on the political economy of targeting and management aspe…

As an important part of this work, in 2003 a series of studies were undertaken on the effectiveness of various measures aimed at channeling resources directly at the poor and vulnerable ? so-called ?poverty targeting?. Five important countries were selected for study ? India, Indonesia, the People?s Republic of China, the Philippines and Thailand. The results of this work were discussed at an i…