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EIGHTH MEETING

RIO DE JANEIRO, AUGUST 24-25, 2006

Agenda

Thursday, August 24 2006

Morning

9:30

Open session
Presentation to the participants of the 2nd National Meeting of Producers
and Users of Social, Economical and Territorial Information and
the media of the Compendium of Good Practices prepared by the Rio Group.
Opening by Mr., Eduardo Pereira Nunes, President of IBGE
Presentations by Pedro Sainz, IBGE consultant and Juan Carlos Feres, ECLAC

Afternoon

Close Session

14:30

Introduction; Pedro Sáinz, IBGE consultant

14:50

Challenges identified in the preparation of the Compendium.
Luis Beccaria, ECLAC consultant

15:40

Changes under study in the ECLAC method of calculation of population under Poverty.
Juan Carlos Feres, Fernando Medina, Xavier Mancero

16:40

Changes in the consideration of health in poverty statistics.
Rubén Suarez, PAHO

17:00

Changes in the Brazilian measurement of poverty.
IBGE. Eduardo Pereira Nunes, Wasmalia Barata Bivar

Friday, August 25 2006

Morning

Close Session

9:30

The concept of income in the USA simulations associated
to proposals of change in the method of poverty estimates. Income and welfare.
Charles Nelson, USA Bureau of the Census.

10:20

The process of introducing new measurements of poverty in the U.K.
Dave Gordon, the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research,
University of Bristol. Notes by Elaine Squires

11:15

Studying the possibility of introducing an official measurement of poverty in Canada.
Notes by Preston Poon, STAT CANADA

11:30

Changes in the poverty measurements in the European Union.
Notes by Ian Dennis, EUROSTAT.

11:50

Changes in Australia. Justin Griffin, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

12:10

Changes in France. Medior Fall, INSEE, FRANCE.

12:30

Future working relations of members of the Rio Group Net.
Eduardo Pereira Nunes, IBGE, and Pedro Sáinz IBGE consultant.