Friday, October 28, 2011 - Age: 203 days

IARIW Statistics South Africa Conference

September 28;October 1, 2011, Cape Town, South Africa

The  objective  of  the  conference  is  to  further  our  understanding,  from  an empirical  and  measurement  perspective,  developments  in  the  area  of  income levels,  income  growth,  productivity,  poverty,  and  inequality  In  Africa.   The conference  will  feature  sessions  dealing  with  problems  and  issues  in  macro measurement  issues  such  as  national  income  andproductivity.  Price measurement  issues  and  international  comparisons  in  income  measurement (related  to  the  upcoming  ICP  round)  could  also  be  topics  of  the  conference.  The  conference  will  also  have  sessions  dealing  with  micro  measurement  issues such  as  problems  and  challenges  in  the  measuremet  of  poverty  and  inequality using  income  and  non‐income  approaches,  objective  and  subjective  measures  of well‐being,  measurement  of  employment  and  time  use,  and  associated statistical and  methodological  issues.   Selected  papers  from  the  conference  will  be published  in  a  special  issue  of  the  Review  of  Income  and  Wealth.   

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