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Third Meeting, Lisbon, November, 1999:

Agenda and Contributions

Fourth Meeting, Rio, October 2001:

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Third Meeting, Lisbon, November 1999

Agenda and Contributions

 

PROPOSED ORGANIZATION OF WORK

 

Monday 22

09.00-10.00 Registration of participants

10.00-10.30 Expert Group: Goals and expectations

IBGE, NSI of Portugal and ECLAC

10.30-12.30 Session 1: Work underway by members of the Group on porverty line methods

Changes in patterns of consumption and their effect on components of the poverty line. Kathleen Short (Bureau of the Census, USA)

Opções Metodológicas para a estimação de linhas de indigência e de pobreza no Brasil. Sonia Rocha (IPEA, Brazil)

Comments:

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

The effect of regional heterogeneity on the definition of thresholds: The case of Brazil. Ricardo Henríques (IPEA, Brazil)

Regional differences on patterns of consumption in Peru. Alberto Padilla (INEI, Peru)

Comments:

Lunch

14.30-17.30 Session 1: cont.

Poverty and low income measurement in Canada: Recent analyses and future directions. Alison Hale (Statisitcs Canada)

Measurement of permanent income as an alternative to current income in the measurement of poverty. Luis Beccaría (SIEMPRO, Argentina)

Comments:

16.00-16.15 Coffee Break

Equivalence scales: A brief review of concept and methods. Fernando Medina (CEPAL)

Comments:

20.30 Dinner offered by ECLAC

 

Tuesday 23

09.30-12.30 Session 2: European and international experience to move towards common practices in the measurement of poverty

The EU approach to poverty measurement. Pieter Everaers (EUROSTAT)

The Canberra Group experience on household income measurement (EUROSTAT and ECLAC)

Comments:

Pobreza e exclusão social em Portugal: Uma perspectiva longitudinal. Lidia Barreiros (NSI, Portugal)

Coffee Break

Contrast between objective and subjective measurement of poverty. Carmen Ureña (INE, España)

Madior Fall (INSEE, France)

Comments:

Lunch

14.30-17.30 Session 3: Use of poverty statistics in the design and monitoring of poverty alleviation policies

Application of the newly developed Budget Standards in Australia. Judy Schneider (ABS, Australia)

Poverty measurement as an instrument to design, monitor and evaluate health policy in Chile. Reinaldo Ruiz (MIDEPLAN, Chile)

Indexes of social lag in the communities of Mexico. José Vences (INEGI, Mexico)

Comments:

16.00–16.15 Coffee Break

Ethnic poverty and social vulnerability data sources from the Census of the United States and the American Community Survey. John Reed (Bureau of the Census, USA)

Monitoring rights and goals for children. Alberto Minujin (UNICEF)

Comments:

 

Wednesday 24

09.30-14.00 Session 4: Poverty and its relation with other social indicators

Statistics on social exclusion: The EU approach. Lene Mejer (EUROSTAT)

Michael Ward (World Bank)

(South Africa)

Comments:

11.30–12.00 Coffee Break

12.00–13.15 Session 5: The future agenda for the Rio Group - Discussion

(IBGE and ECLAC)

13.45–14.00 Session 6: Poverty and social exclusion survey of Britain. Peter Townsend (United Kingdom)