Fourth Meeting:
Rio de Janeiro, October 15 - 17, 2001
Agenda
Monday 15
09:00 – 10:15 Registration of participants
10:15 - 11:15 Opening Session
Sergio Besserman (IBGE, Brazil)
Enrique Ordaz (ECLAC, UN)
Dave Gordon (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
11:15 - 11:25 Coffee Break
11:25 - 13.00 Session 1: Information requirements for designing and monitoring poverty alleviation policies
Typologies of policies for poverty alleviation and derived statistical demands. Pedro Sáinz (IBGE, Brazil)
Tackling poverty and social exclusion. Jackie Oatway (Department of Social Security, United Kingdom)
Monitoring policies at the local level. Berta Teitelboim (MIDEPLAN, Chile)
Working poor. Madior Fall (INSEE, France)
Poverty reduction starts with children. Alberto Minujin (UNICEF, United Nations)
Comments:
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Session 2: Poverty alleviation policies at the international level
The Millenium Declaration. Objectives, policies and indicators. Robert Johnston (Statistical Division, United Nations)
Poverty statistics, development and human rights. Carol Mottet (Swiss Statistics)
PARIS21 initiative. Bahjat Achikbache (OECD)
Comments:
15:30 - 16:00 Session 3: Methodological advances of poverty measurement on subjects considered in previous meetings of the Rio Group
(a) Absolute poverty lines
Recent progress. Argentinean illustrations. Luis Beccaría (SIEMPRO, Argentina)
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30 Session 3 cont:
Food requirements. Javier Herrera (INEI, Peru)
Innovations in measurement in the United States official poverty lines. Charles Nelson (Bureau of the Census, USA)
Canada's new market basket measure of income (MBM). Cathy Cotton (Statistics Canada, Canada)
Comments:
Tuesday 16
09:30 - 11:15 Session 3 cont:
(b) Achievements in the measurement of household income
Report of the Canberra Group on income measurement. ECLAC
Comments:
Pascual Gerstenfeld (ECLAC)
Alternative income concepts for poverty measurement. Ricardo Paes-Barros (IPEA, Brazil)
Reliability of Latin-American income measurements. Juan Carlos Feres (ECLAC)
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 3 cont:
Empirical consequences of measuring poverty through income or expenditure. Ricardo Paes-Barros (IPEA, Brazil)
Income measurement using longitudinal surveys. The findings of Statistics Canada. Cathy Cotton (SC, Canada)
New proposal for the ENIGH. Gerardo Leyva (INEGI, México)
Comments:
14:30 - 16:00 Session 3 cont:
(c) Equivalent scales
Sensitivity of poverty measurements to the use of alternative equivalent scales. Fernando Medina (ECLAC)
Different scales for different components. Luis Beccaría (SIEMPRO, Argentina)
Comments:
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30 Session 4: New approaches to the multi-dimensional poverty
Health consideration in poverty estimates. Ruben Suarez (PAHO, United Nations)
Persistent poverty in Spain: characteristics. Carmen Ureña (INE, Spain)
Poverty and social exclusion. Dave Gordon (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Comments:
Wednesday 17
09:30 - 11:15 Session 4 cont:
Quality health and welfare data for deprived and social excluded groups. Justin Griffin (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia)
Measuring the dynamics of poverty. Lourens Trimp (Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands)
Proposals for international comparison. Madior Fall (INSEE, France)
Comments:
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 5: Future work program of the Rio Group
a) Preparation of a compendium on best practices (agenda definition and assignment of duties).
b) Identification of areas where there is progress underway.
