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Please send questions, comments and suggestions to the group's convenors, Eduardo Pereira Nunes, Elisa Caillaux at IBGE and / or Pedro Sainz,IBGE consultant and Juan Carlos Feres at ECLAC.

SIXTH MEETING

RIO DE JANEIRO, NOVEMBER 12-14

Working Agenda

Wednesday, November 12

9:00-9:30 Registration of participants
9:30-10:00

Opening Session

A Approaches to Poverty Measurement
In each of the approaches the following items will be discuss

1. Introduction. Conceptual guidelines.
2. Standards and Resources
3. Availability of regular established calculations.
4. Technical characteristics: Similarity and differences among estimates
5. Challenges, options, and shortcomings

10:00-13:00 Absolute Poverty Lines Practices
Introduction by ECLAC, USA Bureau of the Census and Statistics Canada
Comparison of experiences
Comments of participants
14:30- 15:30 Relative poverty Practices
Introduction by INSEE and ECLAC.
Comments of participants
15:45-17:30 Access to Basic Services and Basic Capital
Possession Practices.
Introduction by ECLAC, Statistics South Africa, PAHO and INE Peru
Comments of participants

Thursday, November 13

9:30-10:00 Subjective Poverty Practices.
Introduction by INE Peru and Eurostat
Comments of participants
10:00-12:00

Social Exclusion, Social Deprivation, Empowerment and other Social and Political Dimensions Associated to poverty practices
Introduction by IBGE

B. Transversal topics

In all of these topics practices will be discuss. When
still not available proposals will de discuss

 

 

12:00- 13:00 International Comparisons
Introduction by LIS, INSEE, and World Bank,
Comments of participants
14:30-15:00 Strategies for the Improvement of Information.
Introduction by Australia (AIHW) and ECLAC.
15:00-16:00 Additional Conceptual Topics: Poverty
Dynamics and relation between Approaches.
Introduction by Canada, IBGE and ECLAC

C. WORKING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE RIO GROUP AND THE UNSD PROJECT ON POVERTY STATISTICS: CONCEPTS, METHODS, AND PRACTICES.
16:00-17:00 1.The UNSD Program of Activities on Poverty
Introduction by UNSD
Comments by Participants

2.The degree of advance of the Rio Group in the
Preparation of the Compendium on Good
practices.
Introduction by IBGE
Comments by Participants


3. Proposal to establish joint activities between the Group and the Project
Proposals by UNSD and IBGE
Comments by Participants

 

17:00-17:30 The Future of the Group

1.Activities towards the Compendium
2.Report to the Statistical Commission

17:30-17:45 Closing Session

Friday, November 14

9:30-13:00 Discussion of Provisional Report.
Meetings of Working Groups for Agreed Sections or Topics of the Compendium