ST/ESA/STAT/POVERTY/WWW
1 February 2004
Handbook on Poverty Statistics:
Concepts, Methods and
Policy Use
Chapter 1. Preface and introduction
To set the scope of the publication, what it includes and what it does
not include;To explain what types of poverty statistics are needed for
what purpose (i.e. why/when different poverty measures are important and
relevant for specific policy purposes);To make clear the distinction between
national and global poverty estimates and to address the role of inter-country
comparisons and regional and global totals in description, causal inference
and policy-making at both the national and the global level; To specify
the target users of the publication (e.g. statisticians and data producers,
policy makers at national and international levels);
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