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Webinar: Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates
The FAO Technical Network on Poverty Analysis (Think-PA) is pleased to invite you to the webinar "Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates"
Wednesday, June 17 |15:00-16:30|
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The first target of the SDGs is to eradicate extreme poverty, currently measured as people living on less than $1.90 a day. The World Bank estimated that, in 2015, 734 million people lived in extreme poverty worldwide and, of these, about 80 percent lived in rural areas. Not surprisingly, the share of rural inhabitants in developing countries that live in extreme poverty is almost three times higher than the share of those living in urban areas. What is behind the estimation of these apparently straightforward numbers? How are the figures related to rural poverty calculated? And what could be improved?
In this webinar, R. Andrés Castañeda Aguilar will explain how the World Bank estimates global poverty, highlighting the main methodological challenges of using the current approach for rural areas. Finally, he will discuss potential ways to improve global rural poverty estimates, using an example from Latin America to illustrate their implications.
This webinar looks in greater detail into some of the issues introduced during the last Think-PA webinar on “Estimating the impact of COVID-19 on rural poverty” (watch the video recording here), with a more systematic focus on the methodological challenges to estimating global rural poverty.
Agenda:
- Introduction by Katia Covarrubias, Economist, FAO
- Presentation by R. Andrés Castañeda Aguilar, Economist/Data Scientist, World Bank
- Comment by José Rosero Moncayo, Director of the FAO Statistics Division
- Open discussion
Guest speakers’ bio:
Raul Andrés Castañeda Aguilar is an Economist/Data Scientist in the Data Group of the Department of Development Economics at the World Bank, where, during the last ten years, he has conducted socioeconomic analysis in topics related to poverty, welfare distribution, and inequality of opportunities. He is interested in the analysis of data for policy dialog, statistical and methodological research, and the development of computational tools for socioeconomic analysis. He holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Rosario, Colombia and a Master of Arts in Apologetics from the Biola University, USA.
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Webinar - Intra-household inequalities: Empirical evidence and implications for rural poverty reduction policies
Tuesday, 24 March - 14:00 - 15:30 CET
Even though there is a large consensus that it is an individual condition, poverty is usually measured using household aggregated data. At the same time, social policies in developing countries, including food security and nutrition interventions, often try to reach deprived individuals by targeting poor households. However, differently from what standard poverty measures assume, there is often substantial inequality in the distribution of resources within households. The consequence is that poverty reduction policies might be fail to identify the households where most deprived individuals live and/orreach those deprived individuals
within their households.
In this webinar, Caitlin Brown will address the issue of intra-household inequality in the context of poverty measurement. She will discuss the challenges of identifying intra-household inequality as well as the consequences that accounting for it might have on current poverty numbers. Her presentation will provide an overview of the existing empirical evidence on intra-household inequality in nutritional outcomes, caloric intake, resource shares as well as discrimination against certain household members. Finally, it will analyse the implications for targeting rural poverty reduction policies.
Agenda:
- Introduction by Erdgin Mane, Policy Officer, FAO
- Presentation by Caitlin Brown, Assistant Professor, Central European University
- Open Discussion
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Organized by the Technical Network on Poverty Analysis (Think-PA)
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