Reading Materials

I. Rio Experts’ Group on Poverty Statistics

• Absolute poverty lines practices
  • ECLAC Practice on Absolute Poverty Lines Measurement
  • Absolute Poverty Lines: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Proposed Measure
  • Exploration of Methodological Issues in the Development of HRDC’s Market Basket Measure
  • Canada’s Current Developments on Low-income Measures
  • USA Absolute Poverty Lines Practices


• Relative poverty lines practices
  • European Union Countries Practice on Relative Poverty Measurement


• Social exclusion
  • Child Poverty in the Developing World
  • The Distribution of Child Poverty in the Developing World
  • The Dynamics of Poverty: Social Omnibus or Underclass Wagon?
  • Combined Resources & Deprivation Poverty Lines


• EUROSTAT references
  • Classification Plan – New Cronos Theme 3 “Population and Social Conditions”
  • Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 June 2003 concerning Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions

II. ADB TA 3656

• Abstracts
  • Analysis of 1993 Food Consumption Survey and 2000 Family Income and Expenditure Survey for Food Poverty Estimation
  • Investigating Alternative Approaches in Estimating Poverty
  • Towards a Better Methodology for Estimating Poverty Lines
  • Going Beyond Income Measures in Mapping Poverty
  • Analysis of Food Poverty Line in the Philippines Using the 1993 National Nutrition Survey and 2000 Family Income and Expenditure Survey
  • Estimating Food Poverty Threshold and Poverty Incidence Using Food Basket Across Income Groups vs Bottom 30% Income Group
  • Building Panel Data for Monitoring Poverty in the Philippines
  • Targeting the Poor in the Philippines

III. Ravallion’s methodology