Manuals
- The strengths and weaknesses of a variety of poverty gap measures
- This training module deals with generalised poverty gap measures, particularly those poverty measures based on the definition of the poverty gap. The analysis facilitated the possibility to investigate poverty on a more advanced basis, compared with the information conveyed by the headcount ratio and the simple poverty gap measure.
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- How can South Pacific communities participate in climate change adaptation?
- ( WWF South Pacific programme , 2007)
- The South Pacific region is among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. With an almost complete reliance on natural resources for subsistence living and economic development, the chang...
- Policy tools for greater equality in Latin America
- ( N. Birdsall;A. de la Torre;R. Menezes / Center for Global Development, USA , 2008)
- Macroeconomic vulnerability, insignificant job creation during the 1990s and reforms lacking social concern have created a sense of economic insecurity with middle-income and poor households in Latin ...
- Setting the foundations for effective poverty reduction
- ( Development Assistance Committee, OECD , 2007)
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Policies and programmes for poverty reduction often fail to achieve pro-poor impacts if they are not based on a preliminary assessment of their likely distributional impacts. This manual offers an ...
Statistical methodology for targeting cash transfers in Tunisia
- ( S. Bibi;C. Muller / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme , 2006)
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. This method is based on estimation methods that focus on the poor.
... - Combining methodological approaches to understanding poverty dynamics
- ( D. Lawson;D. Hulme;J. Muwonge / ESRC Global Poverty Research Group , 2007)
- This paper draws from ongoing research that aims to genuinely combine qualitative and quantitative (Q-Squared) research methodologies to understand poverty dynamics in Uganda. Using existing nationa...
- Provides practical tools for achieving poverty reduction through mitigation and adaptation to climate change
- ( South South North , 2006)
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The South South North network adopts a pragmatic approach to tackling climate change and sustainable development. This module incorporates the main approaches and provides a toolkit for practitione...
- Breaking down the complexity of vulnerability into manageable components with communities to reduce their exposure to hazards and shocks
- ( E. Chiwaka;R. Yates / ActionAid International , 2004)
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This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to...
- Measuring and identifying the desirable properties of a poverty index
- ( L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005)
- This training module illustrates on what basis a poverty index should be chosen. In particular, it discusses the desirable properties that a poverty index should respect. These desirable properties ar...
- The strengths and weaknesses of commonly used poverty measures
- ( L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005)
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This training module describes two of the most commonly used poverty measures in applied policy works - the headcount ratio (HR) and the poverty gap ratio (PG).
After providing a conceptual backgrou...
- Different ways of measuring inequality
- ( L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005)
- Distributional poverty measures have the common characteristics of including a measure of inequality among the poor in the poverty index. This means that, even though in different ways, the poverty le...
