• The regional workshop aims to discuss implementation strategies on household surveys through the introduction and discussion of several studies commissioned by ESCWA on the availability of information and data gaps in existing household surveys in the Arab region and make recommendations for their improvement, including 1. feasibility of undertaking high frequency surveys, 2. methods of small area estimation of poverty, 3. measures of perceived discrimination and 4. a critical review of MPI in the Arab region, with a focus on measurement issues. The workshop also aims to identify and discuss best practices and lessons learned at regional level and benefit from countries’ experiences in measuring poverty and inequality and to identify the training needs of countries in this field.

Meeting Details

• Information note
• Agenda

Presentations:

Day 1:

• Poverty and inequality statistics - component five of the UN Development Account Programme on statistics and data for the SDGs (Arabic)
• Measuring poverty and inequality in the context of 2030 agenda (Arabic)
• Limits of data disaggregation in household surveys for population subgroups and geographical areas and the requirements to overcome them
• The measurement of perceived discrimination and subjective welfare in household surveys

Day 2:

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and National MPIs for public policy
• Non-monetary indicators of poverty
• Multidimensional poverty in Arab countries: summary of the Arab Poverty Report and a proposal to revise the measurement methodology (Arabic)
• A critical review of Multidimensional poverty indexes (MPI) in the Arab region, with a focus on measurement issues (Arabic)
• Data availability of poverty in the Arab region
• ​Developing comparable measures of income poverty in Latin America
• ​Countries’ experiences in measuring National Poverty Line: Palestine (Arabic)
• Countries’ experiences in measuring National Poverty Line: Egypt (Arabic)
• Countries’ experiences in measuring National Poverty Line: Iraq (Arabic)
• Countries’ experiences in measuring National Poverty Line: Jordan (Arabic)
• Countries’ experiences in measuring National Poverty Line: Mauritania (Arabic)
• Countries’ experiences in measuring National Poverty Line: Morocco (Arabic)
• Countries’ experiences in measuring National Poverty Line: Tunisia (Arabic)

Day 3:

• Experience of the National Observatory for Human Development in Morocco in developing poverty measurement indicators to monitor and evaluate sustainable development goals related to human development (Arabic)
• Welfare and poverty measurement using a subset of expenditures
• Using technology for more frequent and better data collection