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Tools and Methods for PSIA

This section presents information on a series of tools and methods available for the analysis of poverty and social impacts of reforms. It presents summary information on the tools, drawing in particular on the Toolkit for Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and Tools for Institutional, Political & Social Analysis (TIPS): sourcebook for PSIA.

A volume on The Impact of MacroEconomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Macro-Micro Linkage Models is under elaboration and will be available in 2007.

A variety of tools and techniques are available to carry out PSIA. These tools draw from both economic and social approaches. The choice of tools will depend on the reform being analyzed, the information available, and capacity constraints. Each tool can be used in the context of several types of reform. However, each reform will typically call for a specific mix of tools.

For the various tools and techniques, we typically present a summary description and additional material (software, applications etc.) where available. We will add more tools as they become available. Suggestions for additional tools are welcome at psia@worldbank.org.

Below is an index for the tools and techniques contained in this section. Some of the tools appear in more than one category where appropriate.