PEP-PMMA training workshop, Lima, Peru , June 9-10, 2007

Poverty Dynamics 

By

 Araar Abdelkrim / Duclos Jean-Yves

09:00 – 10:30 Training

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:30 Training

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Training

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 17:30 Training

The material of training session will draw extensively on the book by Jean-Yves Duclos and Abdelkrim Araar (Springer, 2006) available at

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-97152-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

It will also use other material that will be distributed shortly before the workshop. The training session will also make use of the DAD and the Stata softwares (including the DASP module developed by PEP) to illustrate and apply the measurement and policy tools that will be presented.

• Survey issues
• Income versus consumption
• Price variability
• Household heterogeneity

• Sampling unit
• Sampling design
• Sampling weights
• Stratification
• Multi-stage sampling

• The quantile
• The poverty gap
• The FGT indices
• The Lorenz curves
• The Gini index of inequality

• The Sampling error
• The asymptotic distribution of the distributive indices
• The hypothesis testing
• The confidence interval

• Poverty and inequality
• Inequality and growth
• Growth and redistribution
• Sectoral decomposition

• Concepts
• Comparing distributions
• Pro-poor indices
• Second-order pro-poorness
• Inequality

• Approaches
• Notation
• JR decomposition
• DAG decomposition