Poverty Targeting in Asia by John Weiss

By John Weiss

5 nation studies-on India, Indonesia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines-are edited (mid-2004) models of papers provided at an inner workshop of the Asian improvement financial institution Institute, held in Tokyo in 2003. That workshop was once a part of an Institute venture to review the effectiveness of varied measures aimed toward channeling assets at once on the terrible and at risk of relief the Asia improvement financial institution, the Institute's mother or father association, in its efforts to lessen poverty in Asia. a last paper at the effect of micro- finance associations on poverty in Asia used to be awarded at an Institute convention on microfinancing held in Tokyo in December 2003.

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An official audit of the scheme found that over 50 per cent of the funds were either diverted to other purposes (state governments putting the funds in special deposits), mis-utilized or misreported. Here, as with the employment programs discussed above, there was strong evidence of beneficiaries paying bribes to receive funds. It is informative that in the survey of Indian experience, the scheme that is found to be most closely targeted is the very modest National Old Age Pension Scheme, which targets destitute pensioners with a very small monthly pension.

2003), ‘Poverty in Western China: exploring the policy options’, ADBI Discussion Paper no. org. World Bank (1990), World Development Report 1990, Washington, DC: World Bank. World Bank (2000), World Development Report 2000/01, Washington, DC: World Bank. World Bank (2001), China: Overcoming Rural Poverty, Washington, DC: World Bank. World Bank (2004), World Development Report 2004, Washington, DC: World Bank. , J. Huang and S. ’, University of California, Department of Economics, Working Paper.

Hence, whilst non-poor counties grew more rapidly, the gap between poor and non-poor counties is lower when counties have a designated poor status and receive poverty funding commensurate with this designation. An even stronger result is provided by Park et al. (2002) using a regression model, which makes growth across counties a function of initial income, other initial characteristics (principally grain production), time invariant characteristics, including poor county status, and a number of time-varying factors.

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