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Prices for Poverty Analysis in Africa
Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across geographic areas and over time. To this end, data on consumer prices are used to construct a price index. There are a range of approaches to do this, from using the consumer price index, to survey-based unit values, which differ in the underlying sources of price data and methodologies for indexing. These different approaches can have large impacts on poverty measures and trends. Surprisingly little attention has been focused on this topic. This study reviews a range of issues and the evidence on how prices matter for measuring poverty, particularly in Africa. It draws on a wide literature, much from developed countries, and offers suggestions for future work in this area.
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Enhancing Clarity in Poverty Analysis
Blog: The Social Policy Blog
This blog is based on an article in the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy by Ilari Ilmakunnas. Click here to access the article. Despite the shared understanding that it is useful to analyse poverty by means of different measures, one measure is more commonly used than others. In the EU, the at-risk-of-poverty threshold… Continue reading Enhancing Clarity in Poverty Analysis →
Accounting for Housing in Poverty Analysis
In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 471-482
ISSN: 1475-3073
The treatment of housing in the definition of income used to measure poverty makes a big difference to who is counted as poor. Both the Before Housing Costs (BHC) and After Housing Costs (AHC) measures in current use in the UK pose problems. BHC income does not capture the advantages of living in owner-occupied housing and AHC income might not account for the benefits of living in higher-quality accommodation. We explore the potential of including in income the difference between the estimated value of housing consumed and housing costs, which we refer to as net imputed rent. We investigate whether findings about child and pensioner poverty, and judgements about the effectiveness of poverty-reducing policies, are affected by accounting for housing in this way.
POVERTY ANALYSIS, INEQUALITY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
This research is entitled Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, Unemployment and Indonesiandevelopment. The purpose of this study is to find out about poverty, unemployment, inequalityand development in Indonesia and their causes and what has been done by the government toovercome them. The research method used is the library research method, which is the study ofliterature obtained from the reference of books, scientific papers, government reports in theCentral Statistics Agency, the DPR, and websites that are related to the title of this research.Poverty is the inability of people to meet their basic needs such as food, clothing and housingand other equality, unemployment resulting from lack of available employment and businessopportunities that do not support it to be implemented, as well as inequality between the richand the poor, between villages with the city. The result is that the current poverty rate is equalto 9,41% unemployment equals 5,01% inequality 0,382% Development has been carried outwith economic growth amounting to and GDB amounting to Rp3 963,5 triliun.
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New approaches to poverty analysis and policy
Vol.1: The poverty agenda and the ILO / ed. by Gerry Rodgers. - 202 S. - ISBN 92-9014-536-6S
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Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 511-522
ISSN: 0305-750X
INDICATORS OF RURAL POVERTY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA - MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY ANALYSIS
Rural poverty presents an escalating problem for post-communist countries struggling with perpetual transition towards market economy. As a country deriving from such economic background, Republic of Macedonia is classified as one of the poorest countries in Europe. The rural population in the country is faced with different obstacles such as: limited access to institutions, infrastructure, finances, and other aspects which not only impede these population's living conditions but also obstruct the development and growth of the rural areas. In order to provide detailed description of the rural poverty situation as well as to identify the vulnerable and depraved group in the rural areas in the Republic of Macedonia, this paper represents an initial record of the poverty conditions in the rural areas. The poverty features are presented through the multidimensional poverty analytical tool and the indicators and dimensions of poverty on micro and macro (country) level in order to describe the socio-economic, environmental, political and institutional context. The comprehensive multi-dimensional analysis of the poverty dimensions in the Republic of Macedonia gives overview of the rural poverty situation and highlights several groups, suffering from multiple deprivations such as rural woman and agriculture households, which are part of an extremely vulnerable group, with the highest risk of going under the poverty base lines.
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Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 511-522
Hardship and poverty in the Pacific: strengthening poverty analysis and strategies in the Pacific
In: Pacific studies series
Moving from the Household to the Individual: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 59, S. 70-81
Capturing nested spheres of poverty: a model for multidimensional poverty analysis and monitoring
In this paper the authors discuss recent trends in poverty concepts and suggest a locally adapted multidimensional model for measuring and monitoring poverty. The model comprises nested layers with subjective wellbeing in the centre surrounded by a core of health, wealth and knowledge, and a context that includes natural, economic, social and political spheres, as well as service and structural aspects. These nine facets of poverty cover basic needs, individual assets and capabilities, and the enabling environment that helps people escape poverty by ensuring sustainability, providing opportunities and minimising vulnerability. The model was tested in several monitoring trials and in the official poverty and wellbeing monitoring of Kutai Barat District, Indonesia, in early 2006. Twenty-one subdistricts covering 223 villages with more than 150 000 people were assessed. Examples drawn from this experience illustrate possible applications of the model.
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Study of the energy consumptions in Spain for the energy poverty analysis
In: http://hdl.handle.net/11531/22966
El proyecto concierne la elaboración y actualización de una herramienta Excel que cuantifique el valor económico y energético de consumos mínimos de agua, gas y electricidad en el territorio español. Se probarán distintos escenarios para su posterior comparación con las estimaciones actuales publicadas en Econometrics Analysis. Adicionalmente, el proyecto comprende el diseño de nuevas tarifas y políticas que ayuden a mejorar el escenario actual de pobreza energética. ; La pobreza energética es un tema cada vez de mayor preocupación es España. Se estima que aproximadamente dos millones de hogares presentan problemas para pagar los costes energéticos del hogar, no siendo posible el que mantengan dicho hogar a una temperatura adecuada durante los meses de invierno o que presenten atrasos en el pago de las facturas. La Unión Europea es consciente del problema y por ello está integrando medidas para solucionarlo. En España, en su lugar, en octubre del año 2017 entró en vigor la medida contra la pobreza energética más importante dada en el país, el Real Decreto 897/2017. El proyecto, determinando los consumos mínimos necesarios en una vivienda para garantizar unas condiciones de vida de confort estándar, realizando una segmentación a nivel provincial, evaluará el nivel de pobreza energética de las provincias y la actual medida en vigor. Con ello, se comprobará si el bono social es suficiente o, por el contrario, son necesarias diferentes medidas para encontrar una solución al problema que representa más de 7.000 muertes prematuras al año en el país. El proyecto fija como uno de sus principales objetivos el desarrollo de una herramienta modelo en Excel que estime los consumos mínimos de las viviendas, a nivel de provincias, dependiendo de diferentes entradas de variables. Gracias a la herramienta, el análisis regulatorio demuestra que para los índices de pobreza del 10% la nueva medida adoptada por el gobierno es más que insuficiente. Aproximadamente son 267 los millones de euros que el Estado destinará a ayudar a las familias en situación de pobreza energética. El análisis realizado con ayuda de la herramienta sitúa la inversión anual actual como un 37,72% de la necesaria en términos de electricidad, pero un 13,44% de la necesaria contando los recursos de agua y gas mínimos. ; Energy poverty is a topic of increasing concern in Spain. It is estimated that approximately two million households have problems in paying their energy costs, being impossible for them to keep the household at an adequate temperature during the cold months or having arrears in the payment of bills. The European Union is aware of the problem and therefore is introducing measures to solve it, such as directive 2009/72/EC regarding measures to be applied with vulnerable consumers in terms of electricity or 2009/73/EC for gas consumers. In the case of Spain, in October 2017, the most important measure against energy poverty in the country came into effect, the Real Decreto 897/2017. The project, based on the determination of the minimum consumptions needed in a household to guarantee standard living conditions, carries out a segmentation at the regional level, and evaluates the energy poverty level of the regions. In addition, it measures the impact of the social bond mentioned. With this, it will be verified if the social bonus is sufficient or, on the other hand, different measures are necessary to find a solution to the problem that represents more than 7,000 premature deaths per year in the country. The project establishes as one of its main objectives the development of a model tool in Excel that estimates the minimum consumptions of the households, per regions, and depending on different inputs of variables. Thanks to the tool, the regulatory framework analysis is performed and shows that for the 10% energy poverty indicator, the new measure adopted by the government is more than insufficient. There are approximately 267 million euros that the State will allocate to help families in situations of energy poverty, however, much more is required. The tool places the current annual investment as the 37.72% of what is required in terms of electricity, but it is the 13.44% of what is needed counting the minimum water and gas resources.
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