Poverty Targeting in Asia

Edited by
John Weiss

As a subsidiary of the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) is committed to a program of research and capacity building that supports the Bank’s overarching goal of poverty reduction in Asia. 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 internal workshop in Tokyo in November 2003 and the fi nal drafts were produced in mid-2004. Edited versions of
these are presented here as country chapters.

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