POVERTY AND GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING IN EGYPT: EVIDENCE FROM A POVERTY MAPPING EXERCISE Rania Roushdy and Ragui Assaad Working Paper 0715 November 2007 The authors would like to acknowledge the cooperation of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Thanks are due to Khaled Maher for running the analysis syntax files at CAPMAS. We also express our thanks to the Center for Economic, Juridical and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) for mapping the study results using Geographic Information System (GIS) and designing the maps published in this paper. Many thanks are due to Dr. Ghada Barsoum, Population Council, for providing overall supervision to this study and helping in the analysis of the results. Thanks are also due to Miral Breebaart, Population Council, for her distinguishable efforts in the preparation and analysis of the Population Census data. Finally, we would like to express our special appreciation to Dr. Heba El-Laithy, Cairo University, for her valuable comments during the implementation of this study. Rania Roushdy & Ragui Assaad, Population Council, West Asia and North Africa Region Email: rassaad@pccairo.org and rroushdy@pccairo.org