The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), drawn from the United Nations Millennium Declaration, was a momentous event in the history of the United Nations. It constituted an unprecedented promise by world leaders to address, as a single package, peace, security, development, human rights and fundamental freedoms (Millennium Development Goals Report 2005). The eight MDGs – ranging from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

The first of the MDG goals is eradication of extreme poverty and hunger. This training will contribute to this effort by providing basic knowledge and skills to stakeholders in the fight against poverty. Lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises on the statistical software STATA with real survey data, will enable participants to be familiar with the basic concepts and tools on the analysis of poverty and income inequality.

Course Aim

After completion of this course, the participants are expected to explain various concepts and definitions related to poverty; state the steps in measuring poverty; recognize the objectives and framework for poverty and inequality analysis; be aware of methodologies for generating poverty lines; obtain measures of poverty and inequality from household survey data using the application software STATA and have some sense of how to construct poverty profiles.

Course Participants

Technical personnel in the government involved in the monitoring and analysis of poverty information may attend this training. Experience in the use of MS Excel or similar computing software would be ideal.

Course Coverage

Well-being and Poverty
Poverty line: theory and practices
Measures of poverty
Objectives and framework for Poverty
Inequality measurement
Methods and types of analysis using STATA
Construction of poverty profiles

Course Duration: 36 hours/5 days

Registration:

To register and further inquiry, please contact the Training Division at Telefax Nos. (632) 436-1426/9297543 or email it to japebenito@srtc.gov.ph or cemojica@srtc.gov.ph.

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