Project Overview
UN Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics
  Activities and Meetings
  Outline of the Handbook as of October 2003
  Outline of the Handbook as of July 2004
Instructions on the Format of Manuscripts
   
  Chapter 1. Preface and introduction
Chapter 2. Overview of concepts and fundamentals of poverty measurements
  Chapter 3. Practices of poverty measurements
  Chapter 4. Statistical tools and estimation methods for poverty measures based on household surveys
  Chapter 5. Statistical issues in measuring poverty from non-survey sources
  Chapter 6. Poverty analysis for national policy use: poverty profiles, mapping and dynamics
  Chapter 7. Conclusions and recommendations
  Addendum
 
 
 

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Handbook on Poverty Statistics:
Concepts, Methods and Policy Use

Chapter 7. Conclusions and recommendations

To recommend an international action plan to assist countries and international organizations in responding to the growing demand on poverty statistics; to recommend the use of a harmonized approach for collecting poverty data to enable poverty comparisons through time and space; and to suggest a broad agreement on data access for outside researchers (data repository).