after the relationship is estimated it is then possible to predict the individual expenditures and the individual poverty status of all individuals in our household survey in order to simulate the actual implementation of the policy by comparing the predicted and actual according to the household survey expenditure data poverty status of the survey households we are able to evaluate likely targeting errors namely undercoverage poor individuals excluded from the social safety programme because predicted as nonpoor and leakage nonpoor individuals benefiting from transfers because erroneously identified as poor the administrative costs faced by the governments to put in place the policies proposed here are not taken into account and we thus only include the total amount of cash transfers allocated or the cost of the subsidies provided we made the hypothesis that all the transfers received by children living in the same household are pooled and shared equitably among all the household members as we cannot know what allocation rule is in force within each household we adopted a relatively neutral approach therefore the model requires a benchmark data set presented in the form of a sam