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 Compendium
of Best
Practices in Poverty
Measurement
Eigth Meeting, Rio,
August 2006:
Agenda
List of Participants
Report
Seventh Meeting, Rio, December 2004:
Working Agenda
List of Participants
General Information
Report and contributed papers
Sixth Meeting, Rio, November 2003:
Working
Agenda
List
of Participants
General Information
Report
and contributed papers
Fifth Meeting, Rio, November 2002:
Working
Schedule
Working
Agenda
List of Participants
Report and contributed papers
Fourth Meeting, Rio, October 2001:
Agenda
List
of Participants
Report
Third Meeting, Lisbon, November,
1999:
Agenda
and Contributions
Second Meeting, Rio, May 1998:
Agenda
and Contributions
List
of Participants
Summary
of the Meeting
Main
Issues
First meeting, Santiago,
May 1997:
Agenda, background and contributed papers
List of Participants
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Background information
The United Nations Statistical Commission, in its 28th Session of 1995, created a Group of Experts to study the statistical consequences of the World Summits of the United Nations on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994), on Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995) and the conditions of Women (Beijing, 1995) and to make proposals on the use of statistical information to follow up and monitor the objetives and goals approved in those summits. One outcome of this work was the recommendation, approved in the session of 1997, of a "Minimum National Social Data Set" of indicators to be adopted by countries.
In its session of 1996, and following another recommendation of the Group of Expert, the Working Group of the Statistical Commission decided to hold a Seminar on Poverty Statistics in Santiago, Chile, in May 1997, and to create an Expert Group on Poverty Statistics (Rio Group), chaired by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, ECLAC, acting as Secretary.
The meetings were an opportunity for many countries to present and compare their experiences and methodologies in measuring and analyzing the situation of poverty in their different aspects.
The group prepared a Compendium of best practices on Poverty Measurement. The Compendium covers seven approaches based on collected experiences: absolute poverty line, access to basic services and basic capital possession, relative poverty, subjective poverty, and social exclusion, social deprivation, empowerment, and other social and political dimensions associated to poverty.
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