Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru
比较了参与式财富排名加验证调查的混合方法与两种代理经济指标在洪都拉斯和秘鲁识别极端贫困家庭的效果，发现各方法表现相似，成本应成为选择关键。
For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a verification household survey, relative to two proxy means tests (the Progress out of Poverty Index and a housing index), in Honduras and Peru. The methods we examine perform similarly by various metrics. They all identify most accurately the poorest and the wealthiest households but perform with mixed results among households in the middle of the distribution. Ultimately, given similar performance, the analysis suggests that costs should be the driving consideration in choosing across methods.