The Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), in collaboration with the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network, is organising a training workshop on Measuring and Analysing Poverty from 20-24 February 2012, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The workshop aims to provide participants with an intensive training on some of the most updated methodologies and tools for policy analysis in the field of development economics. The training is available to researchers, practitioners and students who are interested in carrying out rigorous analysis of issues related to poverty.
Topics covered
• Development, wellbeing and poverty
• Monetary measures of wellbeing
• Monetary poverty lines
• Normatively and statistically robust methods for understanding poverty
• Measuring inequality
• Multidimensional poverty
• Mixed methods in poverty analysis
The courses will be taught in English using lecture sessions, group work, and structured interventions by participants, and individual/group assignments.
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