Poverty Analysis

Determinants of Regional Welfare Disparities within Latin American Countries
This study examines welfare differences across and between regions in Latin American countries and highlights the need for in-depth analysis on the causes of welfare differentials.
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Measuring the Growth-Poverty Link 
This toolkit aims to encourage and facilitate wider use of existing tools for analyzing the empirical links between growth, poverty and inequality. Learn More

Comparing Poverty Over Time 
This section provides a guide for some of the basic issues in comparing poverty levels over time. While the discussion focuses on income and consumption measures, some of the issues apply more broadly to all types of quantitative survey data. Learn More

A Guide to Using Prices in Poverty Analysis This document aims to provide guidance to poverty analysts who need to use price data in their analysis. The relevant issues and choices depend somewhat on the stage at which the analyst has become involved in the project and on the prior information available about poverty in the country. (PDF 405kb)