Participants

The Conference will bring together statisticians/compilers of official poverty statistics, experts, and researchers from national statistical agencies as well as international organizations and other stakeholders who have been or who are currently working on official poverty statistics/indicators in their respective countries/regions.

Country participants

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Fiji
• Indonesia
• Islamic Republic of Iran
• Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic
• Macao, China
• Maldives
• Mongolia
• Papua New Guinea
• Peoples’ Republic of China
• Philippines
• Republic of Korea
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Viet Nam

 

International organizations

• UNESCAP
• UN Statistics Division
• World Bank Philippines
• Asian Development Bank
• UNDP Philippines
• UNDP Bhutan
• UNFPA Philippines
• Australian Agency for International Development
• International Labour Organisation - Philippines

 

Experts/individuals

• Lars Osberg and Kuan Xu
  Dalhousie University (Canada)

• SPKam/MHossain/MLBose/Lvillano
  International Rice Research Institute
  (Philippines)

• Dr. Noriel Christopher C. Tiglao
  National College of Public Administration,
  University of the Philippines (Philippines)

• Philip Giles and Preston Poon
  Statistics Canada (Canada)

• Dr. Stephen Haslett and Dr. Geoff Jones
  Statistics Research and Consulting Centre/
  Institute of Information Sciences & Technology,
  Massey University (New Zealand)