Papers

Targeting social programmes using local poverty classifications

Economic research, Indicators, Poverty

Analytical report detailing how communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo classify various forms of poverty and how these criteria may be used to improve the effectiveness of social policy.

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Manual for for categorizing poverty by community criteria

Poverty, Economic research, Indicators, Local development

This manual, developed for UNICEF Innocenti, provides a step-by-step guide to classifying poverty levels according to criteria chosen by the people affected by it.

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Introdução ao Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional Paulista

Poverty, Monitoring, Evaluation, Conditional cash transfer

A primer on the Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by Plan for the São Paulo State Government.
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Subsídios para o entendimento da pobreza multidimensional e sua medição

Poverty, Monitoring

Theoretical and methodological discussion that provided the background for the Multidimensional Poverty Index created for a subnational government in Brazil.
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