01270pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002200040245009500062260000900157300001300166362000800179520073900187650001200926773003100938909001000969999001700979952010400996180718b2000   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aRavallion, Martin  aMonitoring targeting performance when decentralized allocations to the poor are unobserved  c2000  ap.331-45  aMay  aHow can a central government monitor the performance of a decentralaized poverty program when the incidence of the program's benefits is unobserved at the local level?  This article shows that, using a poverty map and the corresponding spending allocation across geographic areas, one can identify the latent differences in mean program allocations to the poor and the nonpoor.  The national measure of targeting performance can also be decomposed into subgroups.  An application to an antipoverty program in Argentina is used to assess the program's performance before and after reforms.  Increases in funding and changes in program design brought large gains to the poor, although performance differed across provinces. - Reproduced  aPoverty  aWorld Bank Economic Review  a47433  c47433d47433  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 14, Issue no: 2pAR47861r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR