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Multi-level assessments for better targeting of the poor

A conceptual framework

Caroline Brassard

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

This paper examines how various poverty assessment modalities serve to strengthen the governance capacities necessary to target the poor. Large-scale surveys and qualitative, ‘bottom-up’ assessments both have shortcomings in this regard. A ‘multi-level’ synthesis would in theory link a unified indicator framework (such as the Millennium Development Goals) to localized situation assessments and facilitate multi-sectoral efforts to target the poor. Case studies of actual efforts to do this from Vietnam and Burma highlight the way in which the governance context of a country must be taken into account when designing such efforts.

Key Words: poverty • evaluation • donors • targeting • governance

Progress in Development Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 99-113 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/146499340600700202


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