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Frist meeting, Santiago, May 1997:
 Agenda, background and contributed papers
List of Participants
Second Meeting, Rio, May 1998:
Agenda and Contributions
List of Paricipants
Summary of the Meeting
Main Issues
Third Meeting, Lisbon, November, 1999:
Agenda and Contributions
Fourth Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, October 2001:
Agenda
List of Paricipants
Please send questions, comments and suggestions
to the group's convenors, Eduardo Pereira Nunes, Elisa
Caillaux at IBGE and / or Pedro
Sainz,IBGE consultant and Juan
Carlos Feres at ECLAC.
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The Santiago meeting
consisted on two parts. In the first two days, a
series of contributions from individual countries
were presented and discussed, based on a background
paper prepared by ECLAC/CEPAL. On the last day, the participants met to
discuss the continuation of the Expert Group's work,
and more specially the organization of the
forthcoming meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 1998.
First part:
Poverty measurement
Background paper:
Country papers:
- Argentina: Perspectivas
en la Medición de la Pobreza: Métodos
utilizados en la estimación de la
incidéncia.
- Australia: Poverty Measurement and
Poverty Statistics in Australia, by Maureen K.
McDonald, Assistent Director, Household
Income and Expenditure Section, Australian
Bureau of Statistics
- Australia: Poverty Measurement in
Australia: The effect of government non-cash
benefits and location, by David A. Wilson,
Head, Housing Unit, Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare.
- Botswana: Poverty Measurement in
Botswana, by Dabilani Buthali, Central
Statistical Office, Botswana.
- Brazil: Sources
of Information on Poverty in Brazil: The
Contribution of the Brazilian Institute of
Geography and Statistics, by Tânia
Lustosa, Institute of Geography and
Statistics, Brazil.
- Brazil: Poverty in Brazil in the
Eighties: a review, by Sonia Rocha,
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada
(IPEA), Brasil.
- Canada: Measuring
Income Dynamics. The experience of Canada's
survey of labour and income dynamics, by Maryanne Webber,
Household Surveys Division, Statistics
Canada.
- Chile: Impacto
Distributivo del Gasto Social en Chile:
Aspectos Metodológicos (versión preliminar),
by Sonia Araiz and Germán Puentes,
Departamento de Estudios Sociales, Ministerio
de Planificación y Cooperación, Chile.
- France: Poverty Measurement in France, by Madior Fall,
Institute National de la Statistique et des
Études Economiques, France.
- India: Conceptualisation,
Measurement and Dimensional Aspects of
Poverty in India, by P. D. Joshi,
Department of Statistics, Ministry of
Planning and Programme Implementation, India.
- Indonesia: Poverty
Measurement in Indonesia, by Agus
Sutanto, Division of Analysis and Development
of Economic Statistics, Central Bureau of
Statistics, Indonesia.
- South Africa: Monitoring Living Conditions
and Poverty in South Africa, by Ros Hirschowitz and
Mark Orkin, Central Statistical Service,
South Africa.
- Spain: Statistical
Sources for the Study of Poverty and
Inequality, by Paloma Seoane,
Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares y
Condiciones de Vida, Instituto Nacional de
Estadística, España.
- Sweden: Powerty
in Sweden: An excerpt of the Social Report
1994, prepared by Maria Roselius, The
National Board of Health and Welfare.
- Turkey: Poverty Definitions and
Poverty in Turkey, by Guzin Erdogan,
State Institute of Statistics.
- United Kingdom: Analysis of Household Income
Statistics in the United Kingdom, prepared by Dennis
Roberts. Socio-Economic Statistics and
Analysis Group, Office of National
Statistics, UK.
- USA: Changing
the Way the United States Measures Income and
Poverty: A Progress Report (draft), prepared by Daniel H.
Weinberg, and Charles T. Nelson, Housing and
Household Economic Statistics Division, U. S.
Bureau of Census.
- Uruguay: Measurement of Poverty in
Uruguay., by Marcia Rama and Maria
Dolores Fernández, Instituto Nacional de
Estadísticas, Uruguay.
Institutions:
- Economic
Commission for Africa (ECA), Poverty
Statistics and Measurement in Africa, by
Siddig A. Saith, ECA.
- Economic
Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), Notas
sobre la medición de la pobreza segun el
método del ingreso, by Juan Carlos
Feres, División de Estadística y
Proyecciones Económicas, ECLAC.
- Economic
Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), Nutritional
status indicators and instruments for
measuring and monitoring poverty and equity,
prepared by Beverley Carlson, Social
Development Division, ECLAC.
- Economic
Commission for Europe (ECE), Poverty in
Transition in Eastern Europe and the
Commonwealth of Independent States, by
Wolf Scott, consultant, Statistical Division,
Economic Commission for Europe.
- Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP), Report of the Committee on
Poverty Alleviation Through Economic Growth
and Social Development, First Session, and
its follow up, prepared by ESCAP.
- United Nations
Development Program (UNDP), Poverty in the
human development perspective: concept and
measurement.
- EUROSTAT, Income
Distribution and Poverty in EU12 - 1993.
- Pan American
Health Organization/World Health Organization
(PAHO/WHO), Poverty Statistics:
implications for linkages between health
policy and to reduce poverty.
- UNFPA, A brief
overview of UNFPA experience in Latin America
and the Caribbean in poverty statistics and
measurement, by José Miguel Guzmán,
UNFPA Country Support Team, Office for Latin
America and the Caribbean.
- UNICEF, Goals
for Children, exclusion and vulnerability:
expanding the usefulness of household
surveys, by Alberto Minujin, Regional
Office for Latin America and the Caribbean,
UNICEF.
- World Bank, Dimensions
of poverty and directions of measurement -
talking points for discussion, by Michael
Ward, Statistical Advisory Services,
Development Data Group, International
Economics Department, The World Bank.
Second part: The Expert
Group meeting
- Methodological
challenges. Different sources of information
for poverty studies. Uses and limitations of
poverty line studies and other approaches.
Introduction by
Sonia Rocha: On Statistical Mapping
of Poverty: Social Reality, Concepts and
Measurement
Conceptual problems:
poverty measurements and other social statistics; the
question of standards and comparability; poverty
studies and social policy
Introduction by
Simon Schwartzman: Expert Group on Poverty
Statistics
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