One important limitation is the poor quality of the household surveys on information regarding the supply side determinants (i.e. detailed information on school and health facilities). The characteristics of the interventions we propose are discussed below. A targeted cash transfer has significant and specific implications on the methodology also for the micro model: it is in fact on the micro side that we can identify poor children, predict their poverty status and target them for cash or in-kind transfers. Due to the lack of reliable information on the income levels of the households, the government is required to predict their poverty status using a limited number of individual, household and geographic characteristics, which are easily observable by the government and not subject to manipulation by the individual. To do that we estimate the relationship between these characteristics and expenditures (per adult equivalent) observed in the household surveys.