Papers

Country Papers

• Azerbaijan
  Estimation of Poverty Statistics in Azerbaijan Republic.
  State Statistical Committee

• Cambodia
  Poverty Statistics in Cambodia
  National Institute of Statistics
  Ministry of Planning

• Indonesia
  
  The official methodology and estimates of poverty statistics in Indonesia
  BPS - Statistics Indonesia
  
  Development of Poverty Statistics in Indonesia: Some Notes on BPS Contributions in Poverty Alleviation
  BPS - Statistics Indonesia

• Iran
  Estimation of poverty line in Iran during the years 1991-2000
  Statistical Centre

• Peoples’ Republic of China
  Poverty Statistics in China
  National Bureau of Statistics

• Philippines
  Official poverty estimation methodology in the Philippines
  National Statistical Coordination Board

• Sri Lanka
  Official methodology of poverty line and poverty statistics for Sri Lanka
  Department of Census and Statistics

• Thailand
  Thailand's Official Poverty Line
  National Economic and Social Development Board

• Viet Nam
  Poverty line, poverty measurement, monitoring and
  assessment of MDG in Viet Nam
  General Statistical Office

 

Special Topics

• Challenges of “Official” Poverty Statistics in the present context of follow up of the UN Millennium Development Goals
  Giselle Kamanou
  UN Statistics Division

• How should we measure global poverty in a changing world?
  Lars Osberg and Kuan Xu
  Dalhousie University, Halifax
  Canada

• Mapping rural poverty in Bangladesh: how census data collection systems can help
  S.P. Kam, M. Hossain, M.L. Bose and L. Villano
  International Rice Research Institute
  Philippines

• Spatial microsimulation and small area estimation of household characteristics: Towards effective geographical targeting of urban poverty in Metro Manila
  Dr. Noriel Christopher C. Tiglao
  National College of Public Administration
  University of the Philippines
  Philippines

• Low income measurement in Canada
  Philip Giles and Preston Poon
  Statistics Canada

• Local estimation of poverty and malnutrition in Bangladesh: some practical and statistical issues
  Dr Stephen Haslett and Dr Geoff Jones
  Statistics Research and Consulting Centre/ Institute of Information Sciences & Technology
  Massey University
  New Zealand

• Tests of revealed preferences as applied to Philippine provincial menus for the estimation of poverty statistics
  National Statistical Coordination Board
  Philippines