POLICIES FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION

1. POLICIES FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION Pedro Sáinz IBGE

2. Political Status • International: UN Millennium Declaration World Bank program objectives World Bank-OECD/PARIS21 • Regional Regional Commissions Regional Development Banks • National Political Targets

3. Stages of Technical Work First • Definition and measurement of synthetic indicators. • Establishment of relations with other concepts used in social policies: vulnerability, social exclusion. • Simultaneous use of synthetic indicators.

4. Second • Design, implementation and monitoring of policies for poverty alleviation. • Increase of policies under the objective of poverty alleviation. • Macro and micro approach of policies.

5. Macro Approach • Economic growth • Income distribution • Public expenditure • Development modalities: Reform processes STRATEGIC, MAINLY ECONOMIC

6. Micro Approach • Economic and Institutional Structures • Human Capital • Social Capital • Short-term Public Expenditure HOUSEHOLD AND INDIVIDUALS AS UNIT OF ANALYSIS, MOSTLY SOCIAL. VERY BROAD FIELD. CAPTURE HETEROGENEITY

7. Statistical Demands • Macro approach indicators Synthetic poverty indicator Synthetic macro policy indicator • Macro approach sources National Accounts Public Sector Balance of Payment

8. Micro approach indicators Specific group poverty indicator or specific group poverty related indicator and specific policy indicator (example, public expenditure item) • Micro approach sources Household classical labor or multi- purpose survey Special household surveys Population and housing census Administrative registers Decentralized information

9. Statistical Shortcomings • Macro Approach Very scarce desaggregation • Micro Approach Household survey systems Incorporation of administrative registers in developing countries