Training Workshop on Measuring Monetary Poverty Statistics in Arab countries

This training aims to achieve familiarization with:

- Studying the monetary poverty line in terms of definitions, conditions and measurement at the theoretical and practical levels;

- Method of measuring monetary poverty in terms of definition and basic characteristics;

- Measuring monetary poverty in terms of disassembly and poverty maps

This training aims to achieve familiarization with:

- studying the monetary poverty line in terms of definitions, conditions and measurement at the theoretical and practical levels;

- method of measuring monetary poverty in terms of definition and basic characteristics;

- measuring monetary poverty in terms of disassembly and poverty maps

Meeting Details

• Information note

• Provisional Agenda

• Meeting Report

Presentations:

Day 1:

• Opening Session

• Session 1: First session: Theoretical: monetary poverty, terms, definitions and methods of calculation

• Relative poverty

• Absolute poverty

Day 2:

Session 2: Applications based on the results of a national survey on expenditures and the standard of living of families in an Arab country

• Relative poverty

• Food poverty line

• Non-food poverty line

• Poverty Ratio Calculation

Day 3:

Session 3: Applications based on the results of a national survey on expenditures and the standard of living of families in an Arab country (continued)

• Relative poverty

• Food poverty line

• Non-food poverty line

• Poverty Ratio Calculation

Closing Session

• Evaluation of the workshop

Discussion and recommendations