Second
Meeting: Rio de Janeiro, May 1988
Agenda and
Contributions
Wednesday 13
09.00-10.00 Registration of
participants.
10.00-10.30 Expert Group: Goals and
expectations.
Pedro Sáinz (ECLAC), Simon
Schwartzman (IBGE).
10.30-12.30 Session
1: Recent experiences in
drawing and using poverty lines.
An
overview of issues associated with the US poverty
line. Charles Nelson
(US Bureau of the Census, USA).
Budget
standards, living stadards and income adequacy. Harry Kroon (A.B.S.,Australia).
Comments: Gordon Harris
(D.S.S., UK).
12.30-14.00 Lunch.
14.00-15.30 Session
1: (cont.)
A proposal for drawing up indigence
lines. (IBGE,IPEA,ECLAC).
Ricardo Paes de Barros (IPEA, Brazil) and Juan
Carlos Feres (ECLAC).
Factors
associated with poverty evolution in Buenos
Aires. 1991-1997.
Daniel Peteta (INDEC, Argentina).
Comments: Luis Beccaria
(Argentina).
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break.
16.00-18.00 Session
2: Focused or targeted
poverty studies.
Hispanics
poverty from the current population survey and
poverty of other self identified ethnic groups
from census information.
John Reed, (U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S.A.).
The
measurement of living standards. Norman Hicks (World Bank).
Comments: Maryanne
Webber (Statistics Canada, Canada).
18.30-20.00 Cocktail offered by
IBGE.
Thursday 14
09.00-10.30 Session
2: (cont.)
Poverty
in Slovakia and in France: A comparison. Madior Fall (INSEE, France).
Comparative
poverty assessment using Purchasing Power
Parities for low income households. Yonas Biru (World Bank).
Comments: Charles Nelson
(U.S. Bureau of the Census, USA).
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break.
11.00-13.00 Session
3: Statistical
instruments for the measurement of poverty.
Impact
of edit and imputation on income estimates: A
case study. Maryanne
Webber (Statistics Canada, Canada).
Living conditions measurement in Brazil. Elisa Caillaux (IBGE, Brazil)
and Ricardo Paes de Barros (IPEA, Brazil).
The
MECOVI Programme.
Ruthane Deutsch (IDB).
Comments: Harry Kroon,
(A.B.S., Australia).
13:00- 14:00 Lunch.
14.00-15.30 Session
3: (cont.)
Utilization of poverty data.
Anna Peliano (Comunidade Solidaria, Brazil).
The
measurement of income in poverty studies. Sonia Rocha, IPEA,Brazil).
Editorial
Program on Poverty for the 2000 Mexican Census of
Population and Housing.
José Walter Rangel (INEGI, Mexico).
Comments: Pascual
Gerstenfeld (ECLAC).
15:30-16.00 Coffee Break
16:30-17:00 Session 3: (cont.)
Experience of SEADE on Poverty
and Living Conditions Studies. Paulo Jannuzzi and
Maria Paula Ferreira (SEADE, SP).
Friday 15
09.00-10.30 Session
4: Poverty statistics
and social policy.
Policy oriented analysis of
Latin American urban poverty: An example of three
key factors. Pascual Gerstenfeld (ECLAC).
Identification of vulnerable
groups and policy conducts. Reynaldo Ruiz,
(MIDEPLAN, Chile).
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break.
11.00-11.45 Session
5: Poverty measurement
in Africa and Asia.
Document of the UN Economic
Commission for Africa. Siddig Abdelmageed Salih
(ECA).
Document of ESCAP. Andrew Flatt
(ESCAP).
11.45-12.30 Session
6: Poverty measurements
by topics.
International
poverty statistics and indicators: an assessment
of international data and uses. Robert Mayo (UNSD).
Document of UNFPA. Ralph
Hakkert (UNFPA).
12.30-14.00 Lunch.
14.00-15.30 Session
7: The future agenda for
the Rio Group - discussion.
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break.
16.00-17.00 Session
8: Proposal for the future
agenda of the Expert Group, to be presented by ECLAC
and IBGE. Pedro Sáinz and Simon Schwartzman.
17:00 - Closure.
Additional contributions to the
conference:
Poverty
Profiles in Turkey,
Güzin Erdogan, expert of SIS.
The monetary approach to Poverty. Jean-Michel
Hourriez and Bernard Legris, INSEE, France)
Some
Evaluation and Analysis of Poverty Statistics
from two different sources. Lidia Barreros, Eurostat.
