Poverty Manual

Poverty Manual

This manual presents an introductory course on poverty analysis.  The course is designed as part of a broader training program of the World Bank Institute called the Poverty Analysis Initiative (PAI). The overview of this course and learning material are presented below. The learning material is designed for self-learning and contains exercises for practice.

 

Table of Contents:

• About the Manual
• Chapter 1: What is poverty and why measure it?
• Chapter 2: Measuring Poverty
• Chapter 3. Poverty Lines
• Chapter 4: Measures of Poverty
• Chapter 5: Poverty Indices: Checking for robustness
• Chapter 6: Inequality Measures
• Chapter 7: Describing Poverty: Poverty Profiles
• Chapter 8: Understanding the Determinants of Poverty
• Chapter 9: Poverty Reduction Policies
• CHAPTER10: International Poverty Comparisons
• Appendix I: Data Introduction
• Appendix II: STATA Preliminary
• Appendix III: SPSS Preliminary
• Exercises STATA
• Exercises SPSS
• References